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Feb 6, 2025It's a flawlessly executed document of pristine production and incremental bursts of verve and joy to keep the music from dissolving into its own atmosphere. The challenge here, however, is finding the right mood to appreciate the Weeknd's lengthy and elaborate funeral for himself.
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Feb 4, 2025The main thing holding Hurry Up Tomorrow back from truly being a euphoric swan song for the Weeknd is its lack of great hooks. Midway through, the album settles into a slow-to-moderate tempo that begins to feel like a slog.
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Feb 3, 2025The resultant album is cohesive, but slightly tiring; bogged down in ballad after ballad, all draped with the Weeknd's pretty but repetitive vibrato falsetto.
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Jan 31, 2025Arch or sincere, it becomes fairly exhausting over the course of an hour and half. It would be more exhausting still if the music on Hurry Up Tomorrow wasn’t as great as it is. Tesfaye has described the album’s sound as “Frankenstein”, and you sometimes see what he means.