Fittingly, Toronto’s Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd waited until the nocturnal hours of Thursday night to post the second instalment of his mixtape trilogy Thursday and the followup to the brilliant hardly-ever-off-the-stereo House Of Balloons (The third part is called Echoes of Silence and is expected before the end of the year).
‘The Birds Pt. 1’ and ‘Rolling Stone’ were previously released. Drake pops up on a verse on ‘Zone’ but otherwise, it’s business as usual and that business is alluring as ever – sex, drugs and R&B.
The Weeknd – Thursday by The_Weeknd
Download links: the-weeknd.com | Hulkshare
Tracklisting
- Lonely Star
- Life of the Party
- Thursday
- The Zone (featuring Drake)
- The Birds Part One
- The Birds Part Two
- Rolling Stone
- Gone
- Heaven or Las Vegas
Live footage of The Weeknd’s first ever gig.
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Where did you read that The Weeknd is pronounced like that? I’ve never heard that before
Can’t actually find the link now. Starting to doubt myself. Sure call it how you like it.
Even if The Weeknd is pronounced ‘The Weakened’, I am still going to pronounce it as ‘The Weekend’ because that sounds lame as fuck.