5th Anniversary of House of Balloons

It has been officially been 5 years since Abel Tesfaye’s, a.k.a The Weeknd’s mixtape, House Of Balloons came out! Upon its release, House of Balloons received rave reviews from music critics. It has a string of low-profile buzz single releases throughout 2010, the mixtape attracted significant interest due to the then anonymous identity of the individual behind The Weeknd.

When The Weeknd magically appeared from the internet ether, there was something truly total about it all: they had the visual aesthetic down, immaculate production, and in Abel Tesfaye, one of 2011’s most distinctive new talents. House of Balloons 

takes the dark tint of to a place of uncomfortably photorealistic, gritty darkness: that it’s sung with a beautiful voice so clear and sweet only makes it more unsettling. Moving beyond the usual uses of drugs and excess, House of Balloons presents a world of overdose, sex, and vaguely violent seduction, with Tesfaye rendering the hip-hop and R&B world. He chose the name “The Weeknd” because he dropped out of high school one day and took his mattress, threw it in a van, and never came home again.

After he didn’t return, he released House Of Balloons, he also produced Thursday, & Echoes Of Silence. These 3 perfectly created mixtapes were put all together to form the album Trilogy, which what started Abel Tesfaye into his career. He also produced Kiss Land, which was his first actual album. Since the start of Kiss Land, The Weeknd had become The Weeknd. Now he successfully made a new album last year titled Beauty Behind The Madness, and he recently announced he has finished a new project, which means a fall tour this year again!