This Friday morning, the bountiful beast that is the Internet has bestowed upon us a brand new days-of-the-week-themed musical offering: Thursday, a new mixtape from The Weeknd.
The Weeknd, Toronto-based R&B singer Abel Tesfaye, is an Internet-born star who released his debut mixtape, House of Balloons, for free via his website in March (click the arrow on his website to access it yourself). The album, which is NSFW, managed to capture the attention of both the music biz -- the artist is still, however, unsigned -- and the web as a whole.
Now, Tesfaye is dropping a new album that you can download for free via his website, which is presently about as shaky as Girl Talk's was when he dropped All Day. You can also stream the album on YouTube. The last in the series of mixtapes, Echoes Of Silence, is slated for release this fall.
Tesfaye entered the music scene at first as a shadowy entity -- no one knew his name -- but as buzz for the previous album grew (facilitated in no small part by support from musician Drake), he has gained a cult following even though he is largely reclusive and has only really communicated with fans via Twitter and other social media channels.
We're about halfway through the newest mixtape, and it's just as dirty and drug-riddled as the last one. Check out the first song on the album below: