The Weeknd — ‘After Hours’ Review

January 12, 2019. The Weekend took to Twitter with four simple words one day after the release of his latest Gesaffelstein collaboration, “Lost In The Fire.” These words solidified a few things: how aware he is of himself, his knowledge of what people desire to hear from him and that we ought to prepare for the music that was coming in the near future. It may just be everything we ever wanted. Well, even if it took one year, two months, and 8 days since this post, he kept his commitment. Just last week, we received After Hours.

There is such a thing as being a victim of your own success. We’ve seen countless artists begin their careers adored by fans for either reminding them of themselves or delivering a groundbreaking debut project. For the House of Balloons artist, it happened to be both. His early minimalist music conveyed a broken man making it through life with his vices. The Weeknd was one of us, and he sang his ass off too. The connection established in the Trilogy era is unbreakable, for better or worse. Even if his newer content has been great and shown the growth of an artist entering a new stratosphere, for a…