After Hours is the fourth studio album by The Weekend. The album was originally called Chapter VI in reference to him being in the sixth part of his career but that title was scrapped according to Genius. The album released March 20, 2020 featuring 14 songs, that has a runtime of 56 minutes and some change. Going into the album I was expecting a more Pop sounding album because he has found great success with that sound over the past year or so. My only fear was that the content of music would change, I didn’t want him to stop making songs that sounds like he is talking about a girl but he is really talking about cocaine and other drugs (which he is so great at that he was nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for “Can’t Feel My Face” lol).

With all that being said I am so happy to say… this album is phenomenal.

The production throughout the album which features a 70’s & 80’s feel, gives the album its own unique feel. I felt like a good amount of the beats could fit into the show Stranger Things. The album has just the right amount of bop and mellow beats that I want from a Weekend project.

Out of the 14 tracks there is only 3 I would skip or not go to directly. “Escape from LA”, “After Hours” and “Until I Bleed Out” aren’t bad tracks but in relation with the rest of the album, they’re just sub-par tracks to me at least.

“Heartless” and “Blinding Lights” were the singles from the album, I was able to avoid “Heartless” (which has one of my favorite lines that I’ve heard in a while) before the album dropped but couldn’t for the later track, which recently had dope visuals for the song drop as well.

Besides the two singles my favorite tracks are “Faith”, “Scared To Live”, “Hardest To Love” and “In Your Eyes”.

“Heartless” has so many quotable lines throughout the track, the lines that you’ll probably see a ridiculous amount of in IG post is:

Never need a bitch, I’m what bitch need or All this money and this pain got me heartless

But by-far my favorite line goes to:

Sellin’ dreams to these girls with their guard down

Now you’re probably like “Wow Joe, thats a really toxic line to like” and my response would be:

Kiss Land was probably my favorite Weekend album leading up to this project, but After Hours has a really good chance of taking the spot at this pace. I give After Hours an “A“!

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