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After Hours (remixes)
R&B / Soul · 2020 · 6 tracks · 21m

After Hours (remixes)

A fractured, hallucinatory reimagining of After Hours. Dark synths and deconstructed beats turn pop anthems into ghostly, late-night electronic meditations.

April 3, 2020 · XO

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This remix EP serves as the dark, distorted mirror to the cinematic pop of the original After Hours. While the parent album was a neon-soaked journey through the night, these remixes represent the moment the drugs wear off and the sun refuses to rise. It is a collection that prioritizes texture and atmosphere over radio-ready hooks, inviting experimental heavyweights like Oneohtrix Point Never and Chromatics to dismantle the Weeknd’s polished R&B structures. The result is a listening experience that feels both familiar and deeply unsettling, like a memory of a party you can’t quite piece back together.

Tracklist · 6 Tracks · 21m
01
Heartless (remix)
3:20
02
Blinding Lights (Chromatics remix)
4:21
03
Save Your Tears (OPN remix)
3:41
04
Heartless (Vapor Wave remix)
2:45
05
After Hours (The Blaze remix)
3:58
06
Scared to Live (SNL live)
3:38
Moments Worth Listening For
The way the Chromatics remix of Blinding Lights strips the propulsive energy into a ghostly, slow-burn synth-pop lament.
Daniel Lopatin's rework of Scared to Live where the vocals are submerged in a sea of shimmering, unstable digital textures.
The Blaze's remix of Heartless which replaces the trap bounce with a pulsing, melancholic house groove that feels like a sunrise in a cold city.

How does After Hours (remixes) sound next to the rest of The Weeknd's catalogue?

Brooding+1.1σ

Brooding saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

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