The Weeknd / 2012 / album
Trilogy
The Weeknd's first three mixtapes, played as one long night.
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Record n°04 / Sound
Trilogy
The Weeknd's first three mixtapes, played as one long night.
- Artist
- The Weeknd
- Year
- 2012
- Label
- XO / Republic Records
- Kind
- album
Favourite tracks
- 01 High for This The opener that tells you exactly what kind of record this is.
- 02 Wicked Games The one everyone knows, and it earns it.
- 03 The Morning For when the party's over and nobody's left to pretend for.
- 04 Initiation The pitched-vocal experiment I keep going back to.
My note
This was the record that taught me an album could hold one mood for hours. The three early mixtapes run together like parts of the same night.
The production is spacious and cold, which suited late study sessions and long train journeys. I have heard it in both settings often enough that the first few seconds can put me straight back there.