UPDATE: Read our album review.
The Weeknd‘s new album Hurry Up Tomorrow is here. It concludes the trilogy that began with 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM, and he’s also hinted that it could be the final Weeknd album. It features production from The Weeknd himself on almost every song, along with Giorgio Moroder, Oneohtrix Point Never, Max Martin, Pharrell Williams, Mike Dean, Justice, Metro Boomin, and others. The album was prefaced by the singles “Timeless” (ft. Playboi Carti), and “São Paulo” (ft. Anitta), and other guests include Lana Del Rey on “The Abyss,” Travis Scott and Florence + the Machine (on “Reflections Laughing”), and Future (on “Enjoy the Show” and seemingly uncredited on “Given Up On Me”). The album has a total of 22 songs and clocks in at an hour and 24 minutes.
There’s also an accompanying Hurry Up Tomorrow film due out May 16 via Lionsgate, directed by Trey Edward Schults and starring The Weeknd alongside Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, and Gabby Barrett. Variety recently spoke to The Weeknd (and Giorgio Moroder) about the album and film:
“Giorgio is a huge inspiration for this album,” the Weeknd says of Moroder, who contributed keyboards, arrangements and vocals to “Hurry Up Tomorrow.” “His DNA has always been in all of my music, but I’m really honing in on it here, especially the operatic synths in ‘Scarface.’ This album feels almost like an opera to me,” he concludes, “this gothic, operatic finale to the trilogy.”
Moroder tells Variety, “I’m thrilled to continue bridging the gap with Abel between the past and the future, creating something timeless yet innovative.”
With such a dream team of collaborators on the album and film, “Sometimes I even felt like, ‘Why not just tell the same story but with a different actor?,’” the Weeknd muses, “because it’s all kind of meta. But to connect it with the album, I felt like it was the only way to close the chapter.”
Read the rest of the Variety feature here and stream the album below. He also performed its song “Open Hearts” on Kimmel and you can watch that below too.
Read our album review, and our track review of “The Abyss.”
Tracklist
1. Wake Me Up (ft. Justice)
2. Cry For Me
3. I Can’t Fucking Sing
4. São Paulo (ft. Anitta)
5. Until We’re Skin & Bones
6. Baptized In Fear
7. Open Hearts
8. Opening Night
9. Reflections Laughing (ft. Florence + The Machine & Travis Scott)
10. Enjoy The Show (ft. Future)
11. Given Up On Me
12. I Can’t Wait To Get There
13. Timeless (ft. Playboi Carti)
14. Niagara Falls
15. Take Me Back To LA
16. Big Sleep (ft. Giorgio Moroder)
17. Give Me Mercy
18. Drive
19. The Abyss (ft. Lana Del Rey)
20. Red Terror
21. Without a Warning
22. Hurry Up Tomorrow
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The Weeknd also has a pop-up installation in NYC this weekend:
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