Echoes Of Silence (studio album) by The Weeknd

Don't get why this is so low. The production is perfect.

A prequel to Kiss Land, Abel ends his mixtapes on a good note.

The second half is fantastic

From johnnyonthespot1 04/07/2012 18:20

This is the best of the Weeknd's debut trilogy of mixtapes. You've got a heavy-hitting cover of "Dirty Diana," followed by the excellent "Montreal." "Initiation" is as dark and predatory as music comes, but as long as you're OK with the subject matter, it's a great song. "Next" and "Echoes of Silence" (the song) are nice, because it's the rawest and most plaintive we've yet heard his voice.

The reason I like this album the best of the three mixtapes is that the production seems stepped up a bit on this one, and it's more up-tempo. I liked parts of those first two mixtapes, but they also had the tempo of a funeral dirge.

And while I agree that the Chris Rock bit on Kanye's "Blame Game" was crass and embarrassing, I think the short spoken bit at the end of "Same Old Song" is actually pretty funny!

From ShaneSpear 01/04/2012 20:16

It's still pretty unbearable overall. It starts off well with D.D. which is a nice enough Michael Jackson tribute piece, but there are still just some awful tracks where he's still hitting these brutal notes like on XO and Same Old Song. The production is better overall, but still has major WTF moments like the end of Same Old Song (again) where he has this interlude (I guess?) that is just as bad as Chris Rock on Blame Game. As a whole, it's way better than House of Ballons, but still quite excruciating. I'm going to stick with Blackstreet's album Another Level when I need music like this because I think the vocals are much better than this.