The Weeknd - After Hours (March 20, 2020) Album • Page 6

1) After Hours
2) Trilogy
3) Starboy
4) Beauty Behind The Madness
5) Kiss Land

 

Yeah this is the most I've liked an album of his since Trilogy.

 

The run of Scared To Live through Save Your Tears is perfect

 

Madness when people group Trilogy together when ranking his works - they're all so distinct and pretty much album themselves.

House of Balloons still reigns supreme over all.

 

I haven't listened to the mixtapes separately in a long time, that's why. But I think the second one was my favorite.

 

I love this

 

This is so damn good

 

Wasn't a dig btw, hope you know that. I know why people do it because it ended up being packaged that way as well and they were succintly released in a timeline. The EPs rate as they were released to be fair for me.

you could make BBTM a 9 song outstanding album too.

An outstanding amount of songs in his discography now and I really love that he's done this all himself without any features. A real cementing of his place in music.

 

I didn't even rank the three because they are easily the best, I basically just started to ranking to see what post-Trilogy thoughts are

 

I think it’s interesting that despite trilogy being seen as the best by most of his fanbase, he doesn’t really play any of it live. Only 3 songs from HOB and nothing from the others

 

Yeah this just might end up being his best work

 

probably isn't easy for him to do, he wasn't in a good place when making those albums

 

Agree with this - I've seen 3 songs off thursday and echoes but I've seen the full of HOB but that was when he first came here. Since then, no Thursday/Echoes songs and some HOB ones.

 

I think all of his previous albums have had filler as much as I love him, this on initial listen feels like it has the least if any at all. I don't know if anything will top the initial shock and amazement of the sound of HOB/Thursday/Echoes of Silence for me but I think this will end up being his strongest album.

 

Never thought I would be typing this in 2020 but I think The Weeknd just released his best album. Just all the way through it’s incredible, with amazing production, great melodies/singing from Abel and a really cohesive feel. It almost seems like a concept album to me, with him depressed in LA until Escape from LA where he goes to Vegas and all of the videos start. I’ll have to read into the lyrics more but it definitely comes across as a story to me

Either way, I’m in love with this album. I’m a sucker for the whole outrun aesthetic and this has that in spades

 

It's still early for the new one but I'd go


House of Balloons>After Hours>Kiss Land>Thursday>Echoes of Silence>My Dear Melancholy>Star Boy>BBTM


I was actually surprised to find that SB had passed BBTM for me on my most recent listenthrough because clearly from my ranking I enjoy his dark/atmospheric stuff the most but while both of the bottom two albums suffer from too much filler, BBTM actually does slightly worse imo

I love them all though, can't fucking wait to see him live (whenever the hell that happens)

 

This whole album is great. Took a while to grow on me, but this is great. Too Late, Snowchild, & Heartless are my faves.

Scared To Live is the only song that I don't "get", mainly cause it reminds me of "Love Yourself" by Justin Bieber.

Don't have that insane love for Blinding Lights like most people, it's a solid 7/10, but is still kinda cheesy and not as dark as I like my Alternative R&B jams.

 

At the moment I’m not feeling interested until Heartless starts and then from there on its great.

 

Heartless is pretty easily my least favorite but I still like it

 

Listened through once and was kind of bored. Thought all the singles were the best. I’ll listen through a few more times and see if it clicks more.

 

Album is a lot more insular and introspective than what those singles gave the impression of.

Heartless lyrically gave you the impression that he was back on his bullshit but the album is very much the opposite of that. I'd agree with the post that says its kind of a concept, visuals would support that with videos and performances on snl/tv

 

Literally just aimlessly drove around and listened to this album at night because I knew it would match the aesthetic perfectly and it made me love this even more

 

Hardest to Love is fucking excellent, the one that is in my ear the most for sure

 

Seeing some things on Twitter saying the deluxe will have five additional songs

 

Deluxe out now. 5 extra tracks

1. Blinding Lights (feat. Chromatics) [Chromatics Remix]
2. Save Your Tears (OPN Remix)
3. Heartless (feat. Lil Uzi Vert) [Vapor Wave Remix]
4. After Hours (The Blaze Remix)
5. Scared to Live (SNL Live)