There haven’t been many scenarios like The Weeknd’s, where a debut artist gets a three-disc official debut. The mixture of sex, drugs, and women isn’t an unorthodox combo. However, at the time of The Weekend’s first mixtape release House Of Balloons, distorted beats over a high-range falsetto was fresh and incredibly difficult not to pay attention to.
Essentially, Trilogy is a repackaging which joins House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence together to introduce The Weeknd to a mass audience. Every mixtape is even sequenced the same as it was in its release. The only real element that’s been added is a 10th track to punctuate the end of the three mixtapes with “Twenty Eight,” “Valerie,” and “Till Dawn (Here Comes the Sun).” It’s a telling picture of how much has changed for the Canadian artist whose true identity was kept under wraps for some time before the House of Balloons mixtape was released. Unlike the covers of his mixtapes where women were the main focus, on the Triology compilation cover we’re able to see Abel Tesfaye with the arms of a blurred woman around him.
“High For This” (Entourage fans, remember that awesome teaser?) and “Lonely Star” still resound as great album openers. Heavy musical influence really shines in “Twenty Eight,” where Abel evokes Michael Jackson with pleading vocals in one of the most love ailed tracks in Trilogy. Bonus track, “Valerie,” has the Canadian vocalist poignantly singing, “There comes a time in a man’s life/He must take responsibility/For the choices he has made,” before he declares his love. “Till Dawn (Here Comes the Sun)” really finalizes the end of Trilogy with the simple thought of an impending sunrise.
In the land of The Weeknd’s Trilogy, decadence still reigns supreme. Rolling blunts, declaring one’s love, propositions for threesomes, and prescription drug addiction are scenarios that serve as the soundtrack of the over-indulgent young nightlife and its resulting dawn. The mixtapes remain practically untouched, giving any new The Weeknd fans a genuine look into what allowed an unknown artist to transform himself into someone who breathed new life into R&B.
shit
fuck off with this RnB
don’t want to listen to some Drake wannabe
U too tuff for this shit
you need a slap in your vagina for giving this a one
How are you gonna vote this a 1??
Clearly a teenage virgin….
waits for them to catch feelings
Yeah
here to balance the hate… but this deserves a 5 regardless
that gay ocean is much better artist than this swaggerless mofo
The weeknd is the best r&b artist right now period.
Nope…Miguel.
This is the beat R&B album I have ever heard out of the 30 tracks only like 3 of em I’m not feeling. Great album deserves a 5.
Deserves a 5
i usually cannot stand r&b but this album has something to it, 4 stars
2nd best rnb release of 2012
I can’t stop listen him, he supposed to have more success then now. Only 5
Thank You “The Weeknd” & Frank Ocean for bring back R&B.
MIGUEL….that is all.
I have to thank the weeknd for bringing back music worth buying. This is the first album I’ve bought in a very long time and the ONLY album I’ve bought in my short 26 years of life where I haven’t skipped a single song. I love it, he brings you into his world and takes you on a journey that’s doesn’t disappoint.
girl put in work girl girl put in work
No talent-ass-clown.
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Well Said ..Round of Applause Sir ..
Horrible
u dumb as fuck album is def somethin light fuck boul
Dope
Dope album
D.D – the best cover of any song
Amazing album. He and Frank are dominated in r’n’b.
great
5/5
herp derpppp
he’s got a great voice, and it doesn’t sound like anything else out there right now, but 30 songs is to much for any album. i wouldn’t mind some less mellow tunes on his next album.
best r&b artist
He’s going to be considered a legend 10 years from now.
The Weeknd is a breath of fresh air . His music is worth buying . Love his voice,beats and lyrics realist shit never wrote.
i love this album so much every song
dope
Sometimes when I’m listening to him..I don’t fully understand what the fuck he’s talking about. But it sounds good lol.
The Weeknd is not like any other. Great live set too. The trilogy together was meant to be.
if this were one, very focused, and (obviously) shorter… well, let’s just say it woulda been better
The Weeknd is an gifted artist. . . the music is hypnotizing. . .
Boring
Weirdo
although it’s re-release it still deserves a 5. anything below a 4 is just unreasonable.
definitely deserves a 5.
First time actually listening to The Weeknd. I fucks wit him.
Bought this at release, worth the money easily if you listen to this music at least once a week. The CD is better mixed, there is more sound to it. It’s like I was only hearing half the music until I had the Trilogy. This deserves a 5. No question.
love him
ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS EVERRRRRR! Can’t stop listening to it! I want more from him!!!!!
if you ask me is singing sounds better on the original tapes, i still listen to them over trilogy
everyone who gave this album a rate lower than 5 must open their ears. hiphopdx – you too.