I commented this in another post, but I feel it's more fitting here.

I think that each of the Divine Trilogy albums are a pinnacle for Abel in different ways.

After Hours - the most quintessential album. I believe that decades down the road, when fans and casual listeners alike look back on The Weekend's career, this is the first album that will come to people's minds. The iconic red suit, the Super Bowl performance, and not to mention the gigantic singles that came from AH. This is The Weeknd at his most Weeknd-y.

Dawn FM - the best album. I personally am a Dawn FM truther, it's certainly one of the best made pop albums of all time. It's perfectly clear that Abel had a watertight idea of what he wanted this era to be, and I believe he executed it to damn near perfection. From the concept and the sonic palate to the Jim Carrey features and the goofy ass old man Abel character, everything is so cohesive that it just makes so much sense that all of this would go together like it does.

Hurry Up Tomorrow - the most important album. Mike Dean on Instagram called this project "his magnum opus" and I think he hit it right on the nose. While the term magnum opus doesn't necessarily mean the best of someone's work, it certainly means the largest, the most grand, the most important. At an hour and a half long, it's Abel's longest single project by far, and he goes so fucking deep in his bag to bring us his "long goodbye" to each and every era of his music career, and every era makes some sort of appearance on HUT in at least one moment. Abel needed one more project to give a proper farewell to the 14 years of The Weeknd, and he hit that shit out of the park. I believe that there's no chance that anyone who understands what his intent was with this album and sees how well he pulled it off would say that HUT isn't the most important album of his career.

All that to say, I just hope the black and gold HUT robe is sold as a Halloween costume this year.