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The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence
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ARTiST The Weeknd
TiTLE Echoes Of Silence
GENRE R&B
SUBGENRE R&B / Soul / Swing
LABEL Not On Label
CAT.NR None
YEAR 2011
SOURCE FREEWEB
ENCODER FhG
QUALiTY 320kbps
SiZE 107,7 MB
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01 The Weeknd - D.D. 10:17
02 The Weeknd - Montreal 04:15
03 The Weeknd - Outside 04:23
04 The Weeknd - XO / The Host 07:30
05 The Weeknd - Initiation 04:25
06 The Weeknd - Same Old Song 05:17
07 The Weeknd - The Fall 05:50
08 The Weeknd - Next 06:07
09 The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence 04:04
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Total: 52:08 min
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Summary: A completely brilliant beginning to what hopes
to be a long and bright career
In a year following the overhyped, yet worthy My
Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, it is unfortunate that
the hip-hop genre has done almost nothing to pick up
where Kanye left off. We saw the emergence of a new
production demigod in Clams Casino, yet the artists he
pairs with leave much to be desired. Danny Brown
continues to do his best Lil Wayne-in-Detroit
impression, yet falters in the beats department (hint
hint Clams Casino). No single rap record encompassed a
complete package enough in 2011 to make a true musical
statement for the future.
Enter Toronto's Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, the
spiritual inheritor of Kanye's cross-genre torch. House
of Balloons introduced the world to Tesfaye's beautiful
R&B falsetto, while firmly entrenching his art as
innovation through Downtempo-laden production. The title
track has easily become an anthem for 2011 in its
indiefied interpretation of the original post-punk
classic "Happy House". Follow-up Thursday proved HoB
wasn't just dumb luck and met his new found audience
head-on with a less chilled out offering, more
influenced by trip-hop than anything else and
maintaining a high standard for production and
atmosphere.
Finally, Tesfaye closes out a completely massive 2011
with Echoes of Silence - doing the nearly unheard of and
releasing three genre classics within the span of a
single calendar year. A sum of its parts per-se, Echoes
is an amalgam of all previous mixtapes, yet emphasizing
a more pronounced hip-hop vibe. "D.D." uncovers a rift
in time and space with Captain Eo and Tesfaye planted
firmly in the middle; there is no question MJ traversed
the temporal planes to steal the concept for "Dirty
Diana". No single track is worthy of the malevolent skip
button for lack of quality; if anything it's to get to
an even more excellent track. "XO/ The Host" flaunts one
of the finest beats found this side of the year 3000,
where the tempered atmosphere of "Same Old Song" and
"The Fall" encourage a definitely butchered yet
emotionally charged duet with your car speakers on your
way home from whatever it was you were doing at five
o'clock in the morning. While many grasp for thematic
interpretation of the Balloon-trilogy, they are missing
the real essence of The Weeknd; drug/sex references and
hazy nightclub escapades only take a potential artist so
far with poor songwriting and create-a-rapstar
production. Let the complete composition wash through
your neurons and take it for what it is: a completely
brilliant beginning to what hopes to be a long and
bright career. (www.sputnikmusic.com)
URL: http://the-weeknd.com
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