Top Ten Albums of 2011
3. The Weeknd – House of Balloons
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Back in March the House of Balloons ‘mixtape’ found itself online and quickly going viral due largely to the tracks High For This and the eponymous House of Balloons which used Happy House by Siouxsie and the Banshees as it’s starting point.
For Abel Tesfaye and producers Doc McKinney, Illangelo and Zodiac it was the beginning of a highly successful and busy year which saw two more albums drop Thursday and Echoes of Silence, in August and December respectively, but within the opening bars of first song High For This it was obvious this was an exceptional talent backed by great ideas and brought something unique to the R&B genre in a blurring of urban genres and electronica.
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