Echoes of Silence by The Weeknd review

Abel Tesfaye appears to have crammed the creative arc of a career into little more than nine months.

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11th February, 2012

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The term “internet phenomenon” has become almost ubiquitous in up-and-coming-artist biographies these days, but it should be invariably viewed with trepidation. In the case of 21-year-old Canadian Abel Tesfaye, who records as the Weeknd (apparently pronounced as “the weakened”), early internet whispers accompanying the release last March of his first free album, House of Balloons, rapidly turned into a roar. With his calculated and clever take on modern ...

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