On The
Weeknd’s new release KISS LAND, the voice is front and center, the beats more
subtle, each song rising to a moment or moments of high drama.
The result
is intense and powerful. Not perhaps as
striking as their debut HOUSE OF BALLOONS which I wrote about here http://rgdinmalaysia.blogspot.com/2011/05/house-of-balloons-by-weeknd.html but the work of a seasoned, more mature artist.
His
vibe is not as anguished rather this is more like late period
Nine Inch Nails without all the clanging percussion and yelling and
screaming. A slightly nauseous synth
ripple creates the palette for the plaintive falsetto slightly altered by auto
tune.
No
agony here just a long slow grind ending occasionally in small cathartic explosions. Another step forward by a deeply original
artist not encumbered by genre.
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