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The Weeknd - Kiss LandThe Weeknd- Kiss LandRelease Date: September 10, 2013
Record Label: XO/Republic
There was a shift that occurred at some indeterminate point between The Weeknd's 2011 mixtapes Thursday and Echoes of Silence: The Weeknd went from being referred to as "they," a mysterious group of producers and singer Abel Tesfaye to simply he...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-10-10
★★★★★
There was a shift that occurred at some indeterminate point between The Weeknd's 2011 mixtapes Thursday and Echoes of Silence: The Weeknd went from being referred to as "they," a mysterious group of producers and singer Abel Tesfaye to simply he. The production credits stayed much the same, but it was a notable shift if you were paying attention...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-10-09
★★★★★
If it weren't for those gimp-mask wearing scamps Slipknot, it would be a fair claim to make that The Weeknd is the most anonymous act to ever headline Wembley Arena. Not that Abel Tesfaye has been playing the shy retiring type - there he is, staring out from Kiss Land's cover in a way that's either meant to be soulful or a bit smug, and which seems a long way away from the impeccable design of those mix-tapes that got everybody talking - but just to look at him reveals an odd sense of cognitive...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
Available on: XO / Republic LP Unpredictable and inventive, hyperactive and marked by an unending procession of textural digressions, percussive whim and electronic experiments, Kiss Land offers a veritable production bonanza. A bold and extremely necessary departure from the musically prosaic torch songs prevalent in the latter stages of Trilogy, Abel Tesfaye's major label debut proper is a sprawling cornucopia of tricks - a blitzkrieg fantasia as devised by a musician more interested in...
- www.factmag.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
Abel Tesfaye appeared to be living out his own fantasy when he popped up with three mixtapes in 2011. He was hardly earning the wage to experience the seedy, club-VIP existence described on 'House Of Balloons', 'Thursday' and 'Echoes Of Silence', so the dubious practices that took place within could be put down to an adopted persona...
- www.nme.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
September 23, 2013
Abel Tesfaye specializes in spacey R&B songs where he sounds sad about things that would make most people happy (having sex, going to parties, hanging with friends). So you can imagine how bummed Tesfaye is now that he tours the world and has a major-label contract. Kiss Land follows in the lethargic steps of 2012's Trilogy, but the pace is slower, songwriting thinner and vision more bloodshot...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, finds himself in the rather strange situation of enjoying huge life changing success without actually releasing a proper record. Tesfaye's 2011 series of mixtapes as The Weeknd established him as something of an RnB auteur, specialising in highly atmospheric and intimate spooked soul...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-09-17
★★★★★
Part of the thrill of first hearing Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye lay in his departure from R&B orthodoxy; sex and drugs feature in abundance on his early mixtapes, but largely to numb the loneliness of the songs' pitiable/ predatory narrator. The effect feels less subversive now but also distracts you less from the expansiveness and icy opulence of his music...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-09-15
★★★★★
Though we've had a plethora of vital soul/R&B acts over the past few years, none quite reach the zenith that Abel Tesfaye lives on. His triad of EPs, which eventually conjoined for The Weeknd's first 'album', Trilogy, received almost unanimous applause. As such, it's with much anticipation that his debut proper, Kiss Land, arrives.
Where Trilogy also dealt with the Cronenburgian parties that Tesfaye laments, there, he did it with a subtlety...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-09-14