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Though there’s less breathing space on Thursday, and fewer melodic hooks, it still feels of a piece with House of Balloons. There’s the same ineffably skeezy vibe and a genuine sense of the album-as-journey, brought upon by smart sequencing and Tesfaye’s willingness to complicate his devilish, drug-addled Lothario persona. The production is slightly harsher and streaked with violence, befitting the lyrical content– “Life of the Party”, the best and most disturbing song here, is based around doom-like guitar riffs that suggest something truly terrible about to happen. The guitars burst forth during Tesfaye’s mocking chorus (“you’re the life of the party”), sung as he casually convinces a girl into a group-sex situation. Other songs are tinged with similarly abrasive sounds: drill’n'bass noises rattle around in the background of opening track “Lonely Star”; “Rolling Stone” begins with a blustery chunk of heavily processed guitar; and the final track, “Heaven or Las Vegas” (not a Cocteau Twins cover) features a late-song interruption by screeching effects and heavy echo. For contrast , the only jarring touch to the production on the fairly one-note House of Balloons is the title track’s Siouxsie and the Banshees sample. So the world here, in addition to being more sonically varied, feels just a little darker and a little more dangerous…
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