Two new (old) songs have leaked from R&B’s most elusive artist The Weeknd have leaked to the internets–unreleased tracks from sessions with his previous production crew The Noise, to be exact. Although unmistakably the work and distinctive voice of Abel Tesfaye, “Superhero” sounds more like R & Bibbity as it is conventionally understood, a pretty big contrast from the darker palette of drugs, empty hotel rooms, streaky make-up and oddly sinister balloons we have come to recognize as The Weeknd’s kingdom.
“The Cure,” on the other hand, with its sawing strings and slightly more gothic feel, sounds like a transitional stage from one to the other–Dark n’ B in a state of becoming. download below.
