New music: The Weeknd – The Knowing

Ethiopian Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye takes us on an Afrofuturist odyssey to planet Ethia X in 16311 ADWhen we last mentioned moody, drip-feed R&B merchants the Weeknd back in March we mistakenly referred to them as a duo, mainly because so little was known about him/them that if a music blog claimed there were 13 members, all under 5ft, we would have believed it. But the Weeknd is actually the work of one man, Ethiopian Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye. Since his debut album House of Balloons (rel...

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