At one point in June, all three of the top Billboard Hot R&B Songs belonged to Tesfaye, something no artist had achieved before. Beauty Behind the Madness, Tesfaye's follow-up to 2013's Kiss Land, arrives at just the time
Whether it's the sludge-slams of "The Hills," the deep-sea soundscape that leads us into "Often," the guitar apocalypse of Beauty Behind the Madness' first song, "Real Life," the instant soul drop on "Tell Your Friends," the crescendoing fuzz on "Can't
Less grim possibilities rarely seem to cross his mind. As a narrator, he's used to dragging his feet through life while bemoaning the frailty of love. On Beauty Behind the Madness, he's struggling to escape the stasis brought on
Beauty Behind The Madness is the moment Tesfaye takes all the free-floating anxiety and fear and cold, clammy darkness that's been in his music since day one and turns it into pure big-tent pop gold. I never would've
Beauty Behind The Madness is the moment Tesfaye takes all the free-floating anxiety and fear and cold, clammy darkness that's been in his music since day one and turns it into pure big-tent pop gold. I never would've