Abel Tesfaye’s expressive brand-new album art gets here the day of his one-night-only program.
The Weeknd, aka Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, at Cannes Film Festival 2023. Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio through Getty Images
The Weeknd revealed the striking album cover for Hurry Tomorrowthe last part of a trilogy that started with 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FMover the weekend.
“ALBUM COVER,” he captioned the art, which he exposed on social networks Saturday (Sept. 7) in addition to a Rush Tomorrow preorder link.
The Hurry Tomorrow album cover is a headshot of Abel Tesfaye, sensational in its simpleness. The audience’s eye concentrates on his– they’re repaired in a painful gaze and masterfully lit. He appears like he’s keeping back tears. Using a traditional black tank with just the straps noticeable in the frame, he’s set down in front of darkness and leaning forward. It’s an expressive picture.
Signboard connected to a representative for Tesfaye to ask about the professional photographer behind the cover shot, however since press time didn’t get an action.
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The preorder for Hurry Tomorrow introduced on Saturday by means of The Weeknd’s webstore, with a very first pushing vinyl offered for $33 and a very first pushing CD for $12 (limitation 4 per consumer for each).
The album’s release date has actually not yet been verified.
Hurry Tomorrow was revealed on Sept. 4, with a visual teaser and a news release declaration discussing its location in The Weeknd’s trilogy as “the imaginative peak of the task, acting as the 3rd and last chapter crafted with existential and self-referential styles as seen with the current visionary teasers that have actually set fans ablaze with anticipation for this concluding installation.”
The album cover followed on Sept. 7, the date of The Weeknd’s awaited livestream from São Paulo, where he’s carrying out an unique one-night-only show at Estádio MorumBIS. (Watch listed below.)
Tesfaye made up the main tune of his upcoming album in São Paulo simply under a year earlier, when his After Hours Til Dawn Tour brought him to the city in October for a two-night stint at Allianz Parque, Signboard Brazil Reported.
Of what’s to come– the brand-new program and Rush Tomorrow — he informed Signboard Brazil“There is constantly pressure to exceed my last task. Development is very important. Often it might not be what individuals wish to speak with me at the minute, however when the body of work is total, I hope they can value what I have actually been attempting to accomplish. I have actually been dealing with this discography for a long period of time. It was all prepared.”
“I constantly attempt to attain something that I have not done before musically,” he included. “Sometimes it might not be clear on the very first listen [to the album]