Dawn FM – LP: Standard Vinyl [Explicit]

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Spin critic Bobby Olivier praised Max Martin for conferring a cohesive, "well-polished" production to the album, while still maintaining its "dexterity, punch and sex appeal. So you’ll hear EDM, hip-hop and three other types of sounds in one song – and somehow, we make it work. c] "Sacrifice" contains an interpolation from "I Want to Thank You", written by Kevin McCord, and performed by Alicia Myers. Matt Mitchell of Paste opined that Dawn FM transcends "dynamic pop grandeur and flaunts accountability in the face of death".

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Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The record pressed at Third Man Pressing in Detroit is quiet and feels heavier than the advertised 130gm standard weight, and the direct-to-board foldover jacket and four-page insert round out this affordable vinyl package that, if you like this album, is a fair value. On October 4, 2021, during an episode of his Apple Music 1 radio show, Memento Mori, the Weeknd announced that the album was complete, and that he was waiting on a "couple characters that are key to the narrative. on-demand streams and 14,000 pure album copies; it was blocked from the top spot by American rapper Gunna's DS4Ever, which debuted with an extra 2,300 units that week. Brilliantly written, produced and sung, it offers the captivating sound of an artist who knows he’s at the top of his game, at a blissful point at which every melody sticks, and every production idea works just so.Students of the often vexed relationship between pop stars and the personae they inhabit may note that, after the Weeknd was depicted bloodied and bandaged on his last album cover, Dawn FM pictures him prematurely wizened and grey, as if his past excesses have caught up with him. By the end of last year, Tesfaye – or rather his alter ego, the Weeknd – was on the cover of Billboard again, accompanying a feature that offered an oral history of the making of Dawn FM’s predecessor, After Hours.

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He filled his early-career songs with metaphorical self-destruction; on “Gasoline,” he sings about setting himself on fire: “It’s 5 a. Wasn't expecting much, I only bought it so my wife would actually recognize an album that I put on the turntable.

The five-minute version of “Take My Breath” stretches out into a shimmering struggle—you can hear him fight for air, his gasps reverberating over the striding beat. Live renditions of "A Small Plot Of Land" and Jacques Brel's "My Death," recorded with pianist Mike Garson at a fundraiser during the September 1995 Shakespeare Festival in Manhattan, are perhaps the most valuable tracks here. He then described the characters as "some people that are near and dear to me, some people that inspired my life as a child and some that inspire me now.

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Review Explosion, curated by contributing editor Malachi Lui, is a guide to notable recent releases and reissues.The Weeknd described the album's concept as a state of purgatory—a journey towards the "light at the end of a tunnel", serving as a follow-up to his fourth studio album After Hours (2020). CORRECTION: The Weeknd narrates the passage from Rilke’s “Duino Elegies” on “Every Angel Is Terrifying”; director Josh Safdie voices the Arthur Fleminger character.

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Compared to the CD played on my Arcam CDS50, the Dawn FM vinyl has a much better soundstage and quieter backgrounds, with more involving synths and tighter and punchier bass that makes the CD sound spatially deficient and otherwise inferior. I Heard You're Married", featuring Lil Wayne, was originally meant to be sent to American rhythmic contemporary radio as the album's third single on January 11, 2022, but its release as a single was indefinitely cancelled.Perhaps it’s supposed to be taken in conjunction with the album’s afterlife theme, a suggestion that the character is reaching the end of the line and that Tesfaye – who has talked in interviews about wanting to “remove the Weeknd from the world” – intends to move on.