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“I could never put a finger on why it all bothered me until I saw his first official video—which begins with the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, then has Tesfaye playing the futuristic resurrection of Haile Selassie in some kind of space-Ethiopia that is maybe also Toronto, and then devolves into extended psychosexual metaphors of the variety previously noted. I am describing this poorly because it is a bit hard to follow, which is sort of my point about the guy’s records: There comes a moment where you wonder if what you’re enjoying might just be a heap of grandiose, stylized, and not necessarily coherent fantasies.”
Best music 2011: The year when indie music and R&B made nice.
Seriously though, Nitsuh is the best.
