The Weeknd unveiled the placing album cowl for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the ultimate a part of a trilogy that started with 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Daybreak FM, over the weekend.
“ALBUM COVER,” he captioned the artwork, which he revealed on social media Saturday (Sept. 7) together with a Hurry Up Tomorrow preorder hyperlink.
The Hurry Up Tomorrow album cowl is a headshot of Abel Tesfaye, gorgeous in its simplicity. The viewer’s eye focuses on his — they’re fastened in a harrowing stare and assuredly lit. He seems like he’s holding again tears. Carrying a traditional black tank with solely the straps seen within the body, he’s perched in entrance of darkness and leaning ahead. It’s an evocative portrait.
Billboard reached out to a rep for Tesfaye to inquire concerning the photographer behind the duvet shot, however as of press time didn’t get a response.
The preorder for Hurry Up Tomorrow launched on Saturday by way of The Weeknd’s webstore, with a first urgent vinyl out there for $33 and a first urgent CD for $12 (restrict 4 per buyer for every).
The album’s launch date has not but been confirmed.
Hurry Up Tomorrow was introduced on Sept. 4, with a visible teaser and a press launch assertion explaining its place in The Weeknd’s trilogy as “the artistic apex of the venture, serving because the third and last chapter crafted with existential and self-referential themes as seen with the most recent visionary teasers which have set followers ablaze with anticipation for this concluding installment.”
The album cowl adopted on Sept. 7, the date of The Weeknd’s anticipated livestream from São Paulo, the place he’s performing a particular one-night-only live performance at Estádio MorumBIS. (Watch under.)
Tesfaye composed the central tune of his upcoming album in São Paulo slightly below a yr in the past, when his After Hours Til Daybreak Tour introduced him to town in October for a two-night stint at Allianz Parque, Billboard Brazil first reported.
Of what’s to return — the brand new present and Hurry Up Tomorrow — he advised Billboard Brazil, “There may be at all times strain to surpass my final venture. Progress is necessary. Typically it might not be what individuals wish to hear from me in the mean time, however when the physique of labor is full, I hope they will respect what I’ve been attempting to attain. I’ve been engaged on this discography for a very long time. It was all deliberate.”
“I at all times attempt to obtain one thing that I haven’t executed earlier than musically,” he added. “Typically it might not be clear on the primary pay attention [to the album], however followers appear to determine it out over time.”
Stream his live performance particular, stay from São Paulo, courtesy of his YouTube channel (video embedded under) beginning at 8 p.m. ET tonight (Sept. 7).
