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MIXTAPE MONDAY

THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS

GOODNESS GRACIOUS. I love The Weeknd. I seriously love this guy so fucking much, that I might just die.
I don't even want to review this. I simply, can't. I can't say enough good things about it. Anything I type just isn't enough. Tesfaye has a voice that literally melts you once you hear it. I haven't heard good R&B for a hot minute.. and this shit, is quite the diverse R&B mix. With an indie, electro, smooth type sound.. you can't help but wonder if you're listening to a mixtape, or if you're in absolute utopia. Even with all the infested lyrics about drugs and alcohol. Don Mckinney is that dude on the production tip, and he did his job.
If you don't get that raw emotion from the instrumentals and synthesizers and pleasing bass.. you'll certainly get it from the lyrics.. and that's something new for the R&B world. This whole tape is on another level. One that no one has achieved ever. He completely set the bar for himself. He completely brought something new to the table.. and he completely brought something so different to my ears that I appreciate music SO MUCH MORE. It's almost as if I want to grab Tesfaye and say, "Yo, how could you like, do that to other music? How could you make everyone not want to listen to anything else ever again?".. because honestly, that's really what he did.
This mixtape is the best mixtape I've listened to in yeeeeaaaars. I wouldn't change a damn thing.. If hoping for anything, I just hope he can keep passing the level he set so mother fucking high!

5/5. 10/10. 100/100.

GET IT.
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