After Hours, The Weeknd's new album, arrived on Tuesday (March 24), with Abel Tesfaye finally uniting the two worlds he had been chasing since his 2011 mixtape trilogy: the spectral tones of his early work and the format of a major-label pop star.

Pitchfork's review describes it as his most satisfying collision of new wave, dream pop and R&B. The character Tesfaye plays is an exaggerated riff on the solipsistic-hedonist persona he has been tunneling into since the beginning, now placed inside a cinematic narrative.

Production comes from longtime collaborators including Illangelo, alongside Ricky Reed and DaHeala. On tracks such as Too Late, they mutate UK garage and British pop references into something of their own, while the lyrics stay on excess, loneliness and self-loathing.