The appointment is made. The Weeknd has just released the release date of its new album of fourteen tracks. Entitled After Hours, it is scheduled for March 20. The artist joins to this announcement the cover of his next album as well as the release of a new single of the same name, a track in line with his latest releases.
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- The Weeknd (@theweeknd) February 18, 2020With Heartless and Blinding Lights , the 30-year-old singer left his dreamlike style to turn to a more electronic, aggressive sound and a 1980s atmosphere to evoke his romantic insensitivity, his share of shadow as well as his relationship with women.
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Same approach with After Hours , but something has changed, the song shows a transition in its reasoning. He regrets, seeks a redemption, realizes that he has fallen in his ways, to have lowered the guard of a woman he fell in love with while injuring her. A questioning which is also felt in the music of the title.
Always as energetic, After Hours keeps its electro dimension but borrows again in the dreamlike style of its old compositions which made it known close to its Trilogy compilation released in 2012.
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Two years after his EP My Dear Melancholy , The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, came back with an energy we didn't know about. In this reinvented musical universe, the singer continues to innovate and seems on track to mark the year 2020.
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