The Weeknd
Nocturnal. Dark. Sensuous. All words to describe the music of Abel Tesfaye – better known as The Weeknd.
The musical equivalent of a dark, smoke-filled nightclub, The Weeknd’s music taps into that rarest of moods – the hazy, unsure feeling of being lost in the night without a way out.
In late 2010, The Weeknd burst onto the RnB scene, releasing three songs digitally, soon followed by his first mixtape, ‘House of Balloons’. The second release in his planned trilogy of releases, ‘Thursday’, generated over 180,000 downloads on its first day, crashing his website and forcing Abel to distribute his mixtape via other file-sharing websites.
Quickly becoming one of the most sought-after remix artists, Florence and the Machine and Lady Gaga have tapped his potential, both due to release The Weeknd-remixed versions of their songs in the future.
His third release, ‘Echoes of Silence’, will be released digitally on Monday 24 October 2011.