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10.0
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10.0 |
The Independent
It would be easy to dismiss this 22-track album as indulgent – but the Canadian artist born Abel Tesfaye has created a fitting and astonishingly ambitious final score for his brooding alter ego
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
Structurally intricate and dazzlingly effective
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8.3
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8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
Hurry Up Tomorrow is pleasant, even though it’s too long; what it also does well is provide yet another portrait of The Weeknd’s fixation on self-destruction and rebirth
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
Abel Tesfaye has hinted this record could mark the end of his world-conquering alter ego. If that’s true, his sixth album makes for a fitting – and intriguing – swansong
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7.8
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7.8 |
Pitchfork
Abel Tesfaye gives his sordid, heartbroken pop-star persona a long, opulent finale: He’s going out on top by hitting rock bottom
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Abel Tesfaye's very long sixth album tackles some very real stuff
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6.5
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6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Hurry Up Tomorrow feels like Tesfaye’s attempt at summing up everything that was great about the Weeknd as a project, but unfortunately, it’s clear that no one ever brought a knife to the recording sessions
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
On a somewhat exhausting sixth album, Abel Tesfaye uses Brazilian funk, punishing house and lush 70s soul to press great songs into the service of rotten lyrics
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
There’s worthwhile material here but he’d have done well to have made this personal opus much shorter, and thereby more impactful
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Abel Tesfaye is tired of the Weeknd, and after a while, you start to feel it too
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
On a somewhat exhausting sixth album, Abel Tesfaye uses Brazilian funk, punishing house and lush 70s soul to press great songs into the service of rotten lyrics
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6.0
140083
6.0 |
Exclaim
If this really is the end of the Weeknd, he's not quite going out on a high, but it's a suitable bookend to the career of a generational superstar
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4.0
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4.0 |
musicOMH
If this is The Weeknd’s last album, it’s a shame – but it’s perhaps for the best
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Irish Times
Abel Tesfaye’s ever-ratcheting anxiety becomes overwhelming, then numbing over 22 tracks and 80 minutes
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