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Compilation album by the Weeknd | ||||
Released | November thirteen, 2012 (2012-11-13) | |||
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Genre | Culling R&B[ane] | |||
Length | 159:35 | |||
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Trilogy is the kickoff compilation album by Canadian vocalist-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released on November 13, 2012, through XO and Commonwealth Records. It is composed of re-mixed and remastered versions of his 2011 mixtapes House of Balloons, Th and Echoes of Silence, and three previously-unreleased songs.
Trilogy received more often than not positive reviews from critics, who reinforced the previous acclaim of the mixtapes, although some found it indulgent. It was promoted with 3 singles and the Weeknd's concert tour during September to Nov 2012. The anthology charted at number v and number four in Canada and the United States, respectively.
Groundwork [edit]
In 2011, the Weeknd released a serial of mixtapes—Business firm of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence—[2] and garnered both critical acclaim and a growing fan base.[three] The mixtapes were principally recorded with producers Medico McKinney and Illangelo,[iv] at Dream House and Site Sound Studios in Toronto; boosted sessions took identify at Sterling Road Studios.[5] The Weeknd released the mixtapes online as complimentary digital downloads.[ii]
In September 2012, the Weeknd signed with Democracy Records in a joint venture with his own imprint label XO.[6] The mixtapes were subsequently remastered and compiled for Trilogy, along with three previously unreleased songs,[iii] which were recorded at Liberty Studios in Toronto.[5] "Twenty Viii", "Valerie", and "Til Dawn (Here Comes the Sun)" were included as bonus tracks at the cease of each of the compilation's discs.[seven]
To re-release the mixtapes' music for retail, the Weeknd had to obtain clearance from the recording artists he had originally sampled for certain songs, including Embankment House for "The Party & the After Party" and Siouxsie and the Banshees on "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls"; the sample of Aaliyah's "Rock the Gunkhole" on "What You Need" was excluded from Trilogy.[6]
Promotion [edit]
A video accompanying the track "Rolling Stone" was released on October iii, 2012, to promote the album'due south release.[8] The Weeknd previewed the anthology at a listening party in New York City on October 24. It was his commencement major media outcome.[ix] Co-ordinate to music magazine NME 'south website, in an open up letter to his fans the Weeknd posted on his website in regards to the "Rolling Stone" video, "Because I am a homo of few words, I chose to make a viral video to show you how I felt and where I stand up. I usually don't similar to 'spoon feed' my audience because I grew up idolising story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, and then it was in my nature to do the same. The "Rolling Stone" video takes place in a dimly lit studio which represents the ii worlds I have been stuck in. The gloomy side represents the mainstream world while the other side represents the hugger-mugger. The girl holding on represents you".[10]
The video for his first official unmarried from Trilogy, a revamped version of "Wicked Games", was released just weeks subsequently on Oct 18, 2012, over again through his website.[11] Chris Martins of Spin describes the video, "The clip is almost a sequel to the similarly shot "Rolling Stone" video, wherein a adult female draped over the singer's dorsum mysteriously disappears by the song'southward end. This time, the shot opens on a dancing, purse-lipped model type, just her shadow presently vamps away from her body, and torments Tesfaye until the rail's end".[12]
The anthology'south lead single "Wicked Games" was released on October 22, 2012.[13] The song charted at number 43 on the Canadian Hot 100,[14] it reached number 53 on the United states of america Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the Usa Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.[15] [sixteen]
His fourth video release, and third to promote Trilogy, was for "The Zone", a collaboration with fellow Toronto musician, rapper Drake. This video had been rumoured for months and was a popular track given the collaboration of OVOXO, a coiffure formed by Drake and the Weeknd.[17] The video was released on November seven, 2012, and is described by music blog Pretty Much Amazing 'south review every bit having "a lot of camera obscura effects, a woods of multicolored balloons, lens flare that would brand J. J. Abrams jealous, a woman dancing in lace lingerie, and Drake. It's a fitting video – its film noir, Twin Peaks-y vibe perfectly matches the track'due south subtle sexy-creepy energy".[18]
The 2nd single "Twenty Eight" was released on Nov thirteen.[19] The Weeknd toured in support of Trilogy during September to November 2012.[6] "The Zone" was released as the album's third and final unmarried iii days later.[20]
With Trilogy now on iTunes and in stores, the Weeknd turned to his 5th official video, 1 of his three new releases from his debut, "Twenty Eight". Dropped on February 13, 2013, and directed by up-and-coming visionary Nabil Elderkin (some may discover similarities to Frank Ocean's "Pyramids" video which he also directed).[21] Simren Bolaria of music blog Earmilk, describes the video, "A long way from his former faceless, anti-media Internet persona, a distracted Abel Tesfaye sits downwardly for a gray and dreary television interview with a foreign announcer while a haunting hologram girl sits in bed watching from her own tv set. He's under surveillance—the crew is watching, hologram girl is watching, and the reporter is talking at him, so he dips into mental absence. The Weeknd continues to slip back into his alternate stripper earth where the lights are flashing, the strippers don't get tired, the décor is decadent, and he can do the watching himself, with a camcorder in mitt, of course. The line betwixt what's real and what's imagined is blurred, just one matter is articulate—this video is definitely NSFW".[21]
Critical reception [edit]
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 8.1/x[22] |
Metacritic | 79/100[23] |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[25] |
Fact | v/5[26] |
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Pitchfork | 8.5/10[31] |
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Uncut | 8/10[33] |
Trilogy was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 19 reviews.[23] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 8.1 out of ten, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[22]
John Calvert of Fact dubbed it "an r'n'b anthology with few equals in terms of narrational ambition".[26] Oliver Keens of Fourth dimension Out wrote that the Weeknd "communicates" his character "so engagingly on Trilogy" and institute him "riveting when he juxtaposes debauchery with a delivery that finds him numb and on the verge of tears".[34] Killian Play a trick on of The Observer felt that the mixtapes' "production sounded neat to get-go with" and that the "new material is unexceptional", but ultimately stated, "if you didn't pick up the mixtapes when they were going free, and can handle 160 minutes of beautifully crafted nihilism, this is an essential buy".[30] Although he establish the new songs "arbitrary in terms of sequencing", Pitchfork 'due south Ian Cohen cited the compilation as "some of the all-time music of the young decade; judging past its already pervasive influence, it's safe to say Trilogy (or at least House of Balloons) volition be one of those records that volition be viewed equally a turning signal when nosotros look at the 2010s every bit a whole".[31]
In a mixed review, AllMusic'due south Andy Kellman felt that, despite moments when he is "distinctively gripping", the Weeknd lacks "restraint, as he is prone to repetitious whining that is more young male child than immature Keith Sweat". Kellman wrote that "now that he's with a characterization, he'll hopefully get some kind of filter that enables him to fulfill the promise heard in these 160 minutes of i-dimensional, occasionally exhilarating overindulgence ... His potential is every bit obvious as his lyrics are toxic".[24] Kevin Ritchie of Now constitute the music "impressive", but plant the "lyrical ambiguity" to be "a bit one-note" past the album's second hour.[35] Although he found its "excess oppressive" when listened to in its entirety, Drowned in Audio 'south Robert Leedlum deemed Trilogy to be "untouchable" every bit a "comprehensive document of a specific moment in time".[36] Paul MacInnes of The Guardian wrote that its three discs "offer a rough trajectory of party, later-party and hangover, through which an believing vocalisation gives way to one that sounds more troubled", and concluded, "Trilogy does remove some of the Weeknd's mystique – lyrical formulae become credible, and examples of engaging melody recede as the collection advances. Whatever its limits, however, Trilogy remains a striking piece of work".[27]
Commercial performance [edit]
Trilogy charted at number 5 on the Canadian Albums Nautical chart.[37] In the United States, it debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200, with showtime-calendar week sales of 86,000 copies.[38] On May 22, 2013, the album was certified double platinum by Music Canada.[39] By August 2015, the release has sold 558,000 copies in the United States.[40] On March xviii, 2019, Trilogy was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[41]
Track listing [edit]
No. | Title | Author(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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one. | "High for This" |
| Dream Automobile | iv:07 |
2. | "What Yous Need" |
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| 3:16 |
iii. | "Firm of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" |
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| 6:47 |
4. | "The Morning" |
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| 5:fifteen |
five. | "Wicked Games" |
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| 5:24 |
half-dozen. | "The Party & the After Political party" |
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| 7:39 |
7. | "Coming Downward" |
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| 4:55 |
eight. | "Loft Music" |
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| 6:04 |
ix. | "The Knowing" |
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| 5:41 |
ten. | "Twenty Eight" (bonus track) |
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| 4:xviii |
No. | Title | Writer(southward) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Lonely Star" |
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| v:49 |
2. | "Life of the Party" |
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| 4:57 |
three. | "Thursday" |
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| 5:xix |
4. | "The Zone" (featuring Drake) |
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| 6:58 |
five. | "The Birds, Pt. 1" |
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| 3:34 |
half-dozen. | "The Birds, Pt. ii" |
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| 5:fifty |
7. | "Gone" |
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| 8:07 |
8. | "Rolling Stone" |
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| 3:50 |
nine. | "Heaven or Las Vegas" |
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| 5:53 |
ten. | "Valerie" (bonus track) |
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| 4:46 |
No. | Title | Writer(south) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "D.D." | Michael Jackson | Illangelo | four:35 |
2. | "Montreal" |
| Illangelo | 4:10 |
3. | "Outside" |
| Illangelo | 4:20 |
iv. | "XO / The Host" |
| Illangelo | 7:23 |
5. | "Initiation" |
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| iv:twenty |
6. | "Same Old Song" (featuring Juicy J) |
| Illangelo | v:12 |
7. | "The Fall" |
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| 5:45 |
viii. | "Side by side" |
| Illangelo | 6:00 |
9. | "Echoes of Silence" |
| Illangelo | 4:02 |
x. | "Till Dawn (Here Comes the Sun)" (bonus track) |
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| v:19 |
No. | Title | Writer(southward) | Length |
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11. | "The Zone" (airtight-captioned) |
| 5:16 |
Sample credits
- ^[a] "Firm of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" contains elements of "Happy House", written by Susan Ballion, Peter Clarke, John McGeoch and Steven Severin; and a sample of "Happy House", as performed past Siouxsie and the Banshees.
- ^[b] "The Party & the After Party" contains elements of "Master of None", written past Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally; and a sample of "Master of None", equally performed past Embankment Firm.
- ^[c] "Loft Music" contains elements of "Gila", written past Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally; and a sample of "Gila", equally performed past Beach Business firm.
- ^[d] "The Knowing" contains elements of "Cherry Coloured Funk", written past Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde; and a sample of "Cherry Coloured Funk", equally performed by Cocteau Twins.
- ^[e] "Life of the Party" contains elements of "Drugs in My Body", written by Björn Berglund, Pontus Berghe, Anthony Grier and Vini Reilly.
- ^[f] "The Birds, Pt. 2" contains elements of "Sandpaper Kisses", written past Nicholas Bird, Steve Crittall, Alex McGowan and Martina Topley-Bird.
- ^[1000] "Montreal" contains elements of "Laisse tomber les filles", written by French republic Gall.
- ^[h] "Exterior" contains elements of "Go Outside", written past Madeline Follin and Ryan Mattos.
- ^[i] "Initiation" contains elements of "Patience", written by Georgia Anne Muldrow; and a sample of "Patience", as performed by Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Personnel [edit]
Credits for Trilogy adapted from liner notes.[5]
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Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Release history [edit]
See also [edit]
- Listing of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 2012
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External links [edit]
- "Trilogy". AnyDecentMusic?.
- Trilogy at Discogs (list of releases)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_%28The_Weeknd_album%29
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