What we’re listening to: Dangerous Bunny, The Weeknd, FKA twigs and extra

In What We’re Listening To, Engadget editors and writers focus on the brand new music we are able to’t get sufficient of.

Dangerous Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

You don’t want me to inform you to go take heed to Dangerous Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS — when you’re on the web sufficient, you’ve been instructed to take action already. However I’ll add to the pile-on and say that that is Dangerous Bunny’s most private work but. It showcases how trendy pop, rap and R&B might be seamlessly mixed with old-school, conventional sounds from completely different cultures (on this case, Puerto Rico) in a method that celebrates each camps. Dangerous Bunny has at all times been deeply linked to his island house and it’s come by way of in his music, however DTMF is on a complete different stage.

For me, there are not any skips on this album — however when you’re going to take heed to only one tune, make it the salsa hit “BAILE INoLVIDABLE.” Apart from that, my favorites are “NUEVAYoL” (when you dwell within the 5 boroughs, be ready to listen to this all summer season lengthy), “KETU TeCRÉ,” “CAFé CON RON” and “EoO.” — Valentina Palladino, Deputy Editor, Shopping for Recommendation

The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow

The Weeknd is definitely going out with a bang with Hurry Up Tomorrow. Supposedly the pop star’s remaining document underneath his present pseudonym, Hurry Up Tomorrow additionally completes the trilogy that began with 2020’s After Hours and continued with 2022’s Daybreak FM. It’s an enormous (actually, at 22 tracks), cinematic album that serves as The Weeknd’s magnus opus, and definitely, his most private undertaking but. His attitudes towards fame, legacy, suicide, previous substance abuse, the worry of being alone and way more are all laid naked for listeners to listen to, however in typical Weeknd style, he disguises all of it in moody synths, thumping bass and top-tier vocals.

The primary issues I seen throughout my preliminary hear had been the transitions: they’re past easy on this album, they usually’re one of many the explanation why the primary 5 tracks make up one of the crucial energizing sequences I’ve heard begin an album just lately. I’d personally prolong that to incorporate the following two tracks, the ultimate of which is “Open Hearts,” a tune that’s minimize from an analogous material as “Blinding Lights” and can, little doubt, be a standout single from the document. My different high tracks are “Wake Me Up,” “Cry for Me,” “São Paulo,” and “Niagara Falls.” — V.P.

FKA twigs – EUSEXUA

FKA twigs is actually in a league of her personal. I’ve been mentally ready to be modified by the brand new album ever since she launched the genuinely jaw-dropping “Eusexua” music video again in September (which options two tracks, “Drums of Demise” and “Eusexua”), but it surely’s much more magnificent than I used to be prepared for. FKA twigs has described the state of “eusexua” as “pure presence. It's a second of nothingness. Or it's the second earlier than a very unbelievable thought… it's this ego-less presence which is simply crammed with this type of tingling readability.” Name me corny, however listening to this album is a non secular expertise each time.

Eusexua ebbs and flows over the course of its 11 tracks, beginning out nearly angelic with the title monitor earlier than transporting you proper onto a throbbing, disorienting membership dance flooring with “Drums of Demise” and “Room of Fools,” then again all the way down to a softer, emotionally uncooked place with “Sticky.” “Childlike Issues” feels just like the onset of sudden pleasure, nearly misplaced in between “Hold It, Maintain It” and “Striptease” however in a method that’s actually grown on me.

“Excellent Stranger,” towards the start, and the penultimate tune “24hr Canine” nearly really feel like two sides of the identical coin, the latter hitting just like the weak comedown from the previous. I like each tune on this album, however I particularly can’t cease listening to “Woman Feels Good,” which sounds prefer it’s been transplanted into 2025 from the ‘90s and hits me in simply the appropriate method. Eusexua has form of taken over my character in the interim. — Cheyenne MacDonald, Weekend Editor

Honorable mentions: A bunch of singles have come out currently which have me so hyped for albums we’re going to see later this winter and spring. I’m apologizing prematurely for the individual I’ll turn out to be when Girl Gaga’s Mayhem drops, as a result of “Abracadabra” has reawakened one thing in me. On the other finish of the spectrum, I’ve been obsessively listening to Bria Salmena’s brooding indie monitor, “Stretch the Wrestle,” forward of her debut album’s launch on the finish of March, together with “Sugar within the Tank” by Julien Baker and Torres, who’ve a country-leaning collaboration album popping out in April that I can not watch for. All the new SZA from SOS Deluxe: Lana (Deluxe?) has been an actual deal with too. — C.M.

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