Best New Bands » Canadian artists http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Review: The Weeknd – Echoes of Silence http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-the-weeknd-echoes-of-silence/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-the-weeknd-echoes-of-silence/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:04:26 +0000 The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, is brilliant.  We all know that, so let’s not bother arguing.  But what made the act so amusing at first was how much it sounded like they didn’t want to be heard.  House of Balloons trickled across our radar last year, and all the hype eventually turned to a waterfall.

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