The Toronto rapper’s been a supporter of Tesfaye since day one, too, and features on The Zone, a mid-section standout of Trilogy’s second disc, Thursday. Perhaps Tesfaye’s most obvious parallel is Drake, whose own intimate confessionals reached something of a zenith with Marvin’s Room. Tesfaye’s lyricism can be explicit enough to leave listeners squirming but alongside this he exhibits an exquisite vulnerability that sets him aside from so many peers. This is a great commercially available introduction to a young RnB talent who's following Frank Ocean into the mainstream. What’s in store? Mostly what we’ve heard before.īut the familiar nature of this material takes nothing away from Trilogy. Trilogy does feature previously unreleased material but 27 of its 30 tracks are from free mixtapes the Canadian put out in 2011. “You don’t know, what’s in store.” The opening line on this major-label compilation from Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, isn’t entirely accurate.
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