Trilogy

"All good things come in threes."

"Three times a charm."

Trilogy, an extraordinary, brilliant, outstanding, legendary, even life-changing piece of artwork. A compilation album consisting of three of the greatest mixtapes possibly of all time. And the man which created such a masterpiece goes by The Weeknd.

It began on the date of March 21, 2011. Abel released the debut mixtape House of Balloons, already a masterpiece within itself. Ten amazing songs ranging from depressing vibes and drug induced lyricism, to songs you just want to sing and dance to. Songs that make you cry, like The Knowing and Twenty Eight to songs which purely express Abel's angelic vocals, like Loft Music and What You Need.

High For This, the first track on the mixtape, is all about eeriness and mystery. Abels voice just makes it even better. The dark tones from this song make it all a truly great opening track, while other favourites like Coming Down, and House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls use samples from Japanese anime (Coming Down) and 1980's rock samples (HOB/GTG), it all is really unexplainabley genius.

Shortly after House of Balloons, the second mixtape Thursday was released just a couple months later.

There are lots of rock vibes mainly in this mixtape, preferably in Life of The Party and Heaven or Las Vegas. Other songs have catchy beats/background music, memorable lyrics and deep messages, it all seems so fascinating. Rolling Stone and The Birds pt. 1 and 2 all have dark and interesting meanings, even a legendary collaboration in The Zone, featuring Drake, this whole mixtape is mesmerizing from beginning to end.

And last but definitely not least there is Echoes of Silence, the third mixtape concluding Trilogy. Both vocally and lyrically extraordinary, this mixtape is hit after hit. The opening track begins with a cover of Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana" which really expresses just how similar Abel's voice is to his. He talks about drug use in XO/The Host and The Fall, and we shed more tears at Echoes of Silence.

These three mixtapes all together make up Trilogy, with a total of 30 songs from start to finish, there is nothing more to say than this:

How one man can make such a brilliant masterpiece, both visually and artistically with the album artwork, to lyrically and musically with each song, is absolutely amazing, The platinum record is definitely something which should be shared with the world, and whether you like Abel or not, everybody needs to agree that this masterpiece should be Grammy award winning.