The Weeknd's echoing vocals dance over dark synths that sound as though they could fit into a Stranger Things soundtrack or a continuation of the singer's After Hours era. A post shared by The Weeknd theweeknd. The track arrives as The Weeknd's first since his collaboration with Kanye West collaboration, "Hurricane," which was released earlier this year.
Within his own work, The Weeknd has been experimenting with '80s instrumentals and synth pop, a theme that remained prominent on his record, After Hours , and his recent single "Take My Breath. On a placid inlet of the Baltic Sea, where swans glide by the European sports cars parked across the road, the Djursholm Country Club looms behind a red brick wall with a black iron gate.
Built in with a fortune tied to the Nobel Prize, this villa was originally a private residence, and later a convent where Pope John Paul II stayed.
But amid this sanctuary of Nordic gentility, in a corner of the patio closest to the designated smoking section, sits a trio of men instantly recognizable in Sweden and, once upon a time, to any dance music fan around the world: the game-changing threesome Swedish House Mafia.
Axwell born Axel Hedfors , 43, is the fine-featured one with the dry sense of humor; wearing a striped shirt and shorts and sipping a beer, he blends in easily enough. Twice during a dinner of burrata, French fries, mushrooms, fish tacos and garlic shrimp, Angello and Ingrosso go off to smoke thin Vogue cigarettes. Axwell vapes at the table. But their presence out in the open as a trio, sharing a friendly meal with two journalists, is far more unexpected.
It has been eight years since they broke up with significant fanfare; about that long since they sat down for an interview as a group; and 20 months since they shut down their group social media accounts and essentially disappeared. Here, they set new standards for what success could look like for dance acts, selling out Madison Square Garden twice the first time, in December , in nine minutes , gaining mass popularity as the first generation of digital natives flocked to mega-festivals like Ultra and Electric Daisy Carnival.
They were kind of the leading protagonists of what became the next big global wave in terms of the impact of DJs and what they could achieve. And then, at the height of its success in , the trio broke up, devastating and shocking dance fans worldwide. But, as the members now say, behind-the-scenes problems at that show underscored just how much of a change a true reunion would have necessitated.
Over the next three years, they made attempts at new music but were derailed at every turn — fighting their own well-known perfectionism, changing managers twice and ultimately leaving the label, Columbia Records, that signed them when they had only bits and pieces of new music. That number dipped to 3. How do we come back? Swedish House Mafia has never done anything less than full throttle, and even its last goodbye was outsized. For fans, the doc was a kind of EDM Rosetta stone, offering some insights into why a group at the peak of its powers would just walk away.
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