Premature Evaluation: The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow

That album cover is some real A24 shit. The image that Abel Tesfaye chose for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the new record where he supposedly bids goodbye to his time as the Weeknd, wasn’t out in the world until the album arrived on streaming services last night. It’s a striking picture — the top half of Tesfaye’s face, jaggedly tilted and captured in mid-howl greyscale. He’s got sweat beading all over his forehead and scrunched-up eyes, and he looks a bit like James Brown or one of the other...

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