Season 6 Ep. 3 | The Daily - The Weeknd, Dawn FM & Gunna's, DS4EVER
Myra, Dei & Mojo discuss the Weeknd's fifth album is both a sonic and thematic follow-up to After Hours. It also has him riding the cinematic and retro synth-pop sounds first explored in 2016's Star Boy to its zenith. This is immortalized by the A-list personnel behind the new project, from Swedish pop maestro Max Martin and EDM trio Swedish House Mafia to U.S. producer and film composer Daniel Lopatin, who goes by Oneohtrix Point Never, or OPN. You could argue that Dawn FM is merely a flowering of ideas that were there all along. House of Balloons creates chilly R&B out of samples of Beach…
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