A Physical Fraction

I dont usually blog from work, but today is the exception. This music needs to be heard. First off you need to be a fan of rap or good R&B to enjoy this post. Or at least be a fan of good quality music. Feel it as an art form. Dont judge too early because that will just let you miss out on something thats really fucking cool. If you appreciate music for what it is, an art, and you enjoy very good quality production like Dr Dre and Kanye, Jay Hova or Drake (Young Money!). Then this is something that you will enjoy.

I have been listening to the Mixtape online since this morning and had it on repeat ever since. Im actually downloading the Mixtape as I type. Because thats how I roll. And because I love to share, and want people to experience good music, I have included the download link.

Also, it should be said, the production of The Weeknd is something I have never ever heard in this style of music before. It really is beautiful. The lyrical content is pretty sick as well. Relevant as fuck actually. 'Codeine cups paint a picture so vivid, face try to mimic, got girls timid, but behind closed doors they get pulled for riches.' More information below.


Download Link: The Weeknd - House Of Balloons (139.58 MB)

My word. Put some headphones on, and play the track 'What You Need'. Dark. Sombre. Sets a great atmosphere.





Who: The 20 year old singer songwriter (real name: Abel Tesfaye) from Toronto is on the forefront of an idiosyncratic new cut of R&B. Thanks in part to support from fellow Toronto native Drake, he's been in heavy rotation since the March 21st release of his mixtape debut House of Balloons.

Sounds Like: The Weeknd layers House of Balloons with samples (Siouxsie and the Banshees’s 1980 "Happy House," Beach House‘s 2006 "Master of None"), electronic synths and hip-hop references, accompanied by Frank Ocean from Odd Future and How To Dress Well. There are also traces of The Dream, Drake and Aaliyah throughout.

Girls, Girls, Girls: With its late Nineties Timbaland feel (listen to Missy Elliott’s "Friendly Skies"), "What You Need" is the most seductive song on the mixtape. It opens with, "baby, now hold me close" – a line from Aaliyah’s 2001 "Rock The Boat." The Weeknd proceeds to lure, singing, "I’m going to give you what you feign / I’m the drug in your veins / Just fight through your pain / He’s what you want / I’m what you need." But on many of Balloons' tracks The Weeknd entices and explores women, what they bring and what they leave. He sings of women that long to be held and women he longs to hold – but they never seem to be one and the same.

Famous Friends: Chaos erupted on March 6th when Drake tweeted a line from The Weeknd’s "Wicked Game" and linked to the song on his site, October’s Very Own. Ever since, Drake’s been sporadically tweeting lyrics from House of Balloons – which makes sense, since The Weeknd is almost like an emotionally magnified version of Drake. That said, The Weeknd quickly shot down rumors that producer who works close to Drake, Noah "40" Shebib, worked on House of Balloons: "40 did not produce anything on this tape... Shout outs to 40 though!", he wrote on Twitter. And although rumors still circulate, The Weeknd is not signed to a label, as he alludes to on the track "Loft Music": "Im raw motherfucker, I’m raw," he sings.