“After Hours” gives the fans what they want and is his closest album to matching that sound to date. Weeknd fans have been waiting for Abel to go back to his earlier sound and match the vibes of his earlier albums such as 2012’s “Trilogy” and 2013’s “Kiss Land.” However, his rising fame and profile kept him away from achieving this. 6: The Critical Race Theory, A Modern-Day Tool All of the songs bring a different sound that adds to the album as a whole and Abel’s lyrics and soothing falsetto help convey the messages he wants to in each one of them. It takes a certain type of artist to maintain their audience’s attention solely by themselves and Abel does this very well. One of the most important takeaways from the “After Hours” album is the fact that it has no features at all.
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The album is a full embodiment of what he’s been up to for the past four years, virtually releasing no music aside from his 2018 six-song, 22 minute EP “My Dear Melancholy,” and maintains its focus solely on himself. Now after much self-reflection, he has a new mission: escape. It’s made clear that he’s attempting to rise above all of the fame and pressures that it brings.
His new effort “After Hours” does a full 360-degree turn from that direction while still maintaining similar subject matter of women, drugs, sex, love, riches, and fighting personal demons. That album, which maintained a more mainstream style pop R&B sound symbolized his rise to popstar fame and succumbing to the lifestyle that was thrown onto him with the success of his music. This past Friday The Weeknd blessed the world with the arrival of his 5th full-length studio album, “After Hours.” The album, just off the cover art which shows a smiling Weeknd whose face is covered in blood, proved to showcase the darker side of the Canadian artist, born Abel Tesfaye, that has been missing from his music since his 2016 effort “Starboy.”