The Weeknd: My Dear Melancholy, review – beautiful backings for breakup bawling
Abel Tesfaye’s surprise EP – the follow-up to the massively successful Starboy – features ghostly and gorgeous production but lyrics that are suffocatingly solipsisticFew recent releases have had a more offhand kind of advance promotion than The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy,. It isn’t so much a surprise release as one announced with a shrug: “Should we drop Friday? I’m indifferent, to be honest,†ran the text message published by Abel Tesfaye ...
New York Post — Sounds like the Weeknd isn’t over Selena Gomez. At midnight, the 28-year-old crooner released his latest EP, aptly titled “My Dear Melancholy.” In the opening track... more info
Stereogum — The Weeknd will release a new album tonight titled My Dear Melancholy. It follows 2016's massive
Starboy
and the Weeknd's contribution to the
Black Panther soundtrack. more info
NME —
Abel Tesfaye returns with six-track record
The Weeknd
The Weeknd has shared a surprise new album called ‘My Dear Melancholy’. The six-track release was only ann... more info
Guardian Music — Abel Tesfaye’s surprise EP – the follow-up to the massively successful Starboy – features ghostly and gorgeous production but lyrics that are suffoca... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — The EP has production from Gesaffelstein, Skrillex, and Mike WIll Made It, and songwriting credits from Nicolas Jaar and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk.
Continu... more info
Stereogum — Last night, the Weeknd released a new 6-track mini-album called
My Dear Melancholy
, and around the same time two videos went live on Spotify showing the singer performi... more info
Perez Hilton — It's happening!
After weeks of teasing his fans with the release of a new album, The Weeknd finally confirmed he would be dropping the follow-up to 2016's Starboy.
Video:... more info
Consequence of Sound — The six-track effort finds Abel Tesfaye returning "to his unfiltered, art-house roots with a release so intimate and tortured, you’ll feel like a fly on his bedroom wa... more info
Perez Hilton — The Weeknd certainly knows how to bare his broken soul via song.
As you surely know, late on Thursday evening, the Starboy singer released his latest album, titled My Dea... more info
Chorus.fm — The Weeknd will release a new album tonight titled My Dear Melancholy. tonight A post shared by The Weeknd (@theweeknd) on Mar 29, 2018 at 9:42am PDT more info