Statement with soul

Abel Tesfaye aka. The Weeknd is therefore arrived. After his so remarkable as extensive Vorwerk was initially only as a collection of three digital mixtapes and so gave the impression that the man can not believe so right from the cover and only the inevitable success had forced him to bits and bytes retrospectively yet to trilogy and rededicate to the physical recorded music, Kiss Country is now the obligatory way. And why is not bad. Because even though the element of surprise is gone now, it creates can the man from Toronto again, (s) to revive a very complex, stress and varied soundscape synthetic RNBS. This appears sometimes frosty cold and distanciert (The Town, adaptation), sometimes with warm and berührendem Soul (Professional) and in rare moments in plushy pomposity (Pretty, Kiss Country) course is about alienation, longings, true love and commercial sex everything so what the impersonal metropolis life for a hopeless romantics like Tesfaye so holds.

The sound fluctuates as usual between Massive Attack and Frank Ocean, Justin Timberlake should be angry that this catchy midtempo pieces without Timbaland and Williams have the necessary grip and Michael Jackson, well, which should be happy that there is someone who is ( by DD on Echoes Of Silence) its heritage takes on appropriate way. Not everything is consistent, a few minutes less would have the album probably done well, for the howling synths in the background of the title track one needs to have good nerves and the notorious samples from Portishead Machine Gun (Belong To The World) not have half as much oomph as the original. Plus Wanderlust as at least arguable cover version of 84-time Howler Precious Little Diamond by Fox The Fox well ... but in all, it remains a remarkable drive with many clever ideas, a kind of handout and Soundtrack for survival in the maximum digitized Megacity , always short on kitsch past, a statement with soul. mapambulo: blog