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The Weeknd’s Somber, Sexy New Album ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’

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The 25-year-old Canadian Abel Tesfaye has started to embrace the fame game with his most commercial—and accessible—album to date.

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The Robert Smith of millenials? Abel Tesfaye has been vying for that title for almost five years. The Weeknd has shown a knack for the kind of po-faced emoting that made The Cure every angsty romantic reject’s favorite band in the ’80s, and though the comparison will surely seem outrageous...

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