The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Album Cover, Preorder Are Here
The Weeknd unveiled the putting album cowl for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the ultimate a part of a trilogy that started with 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM, over the weekend.
“ALBUM COVER,” he captioned the artwork, which he revealed on social media Saturday (Sept. 7) together with a Hurry Up Tomorrow preorder hyperlink.
The Hurry Up Tomorrow album cowl is a headshot of Abel Tesfaye, beautiful in its simplicity. The viewer’s eye focuses on his — they’re mounted in a harrowing stare and elegantly lit. He appears like he’s holding again tears. Wearing a traditional black tank with solely the straps seen within the body, he’s perched in entrance of darkness and leaning ahead. It’s an evocative portrait.
Billboard reached out to a rep for Tesfaye to inquire in regards to the photographer behind the quilt shot, however as of press time didn’t get a response.
The preorder for Hurry Up Tomorrow launched on Saturday by way of The Weeknd’s webstore, with a primary urgent vinyl obtainable for $33 and a primary urgent CD for $12 (restrict 4 per buyer for every).
The album’s launch date has not but been confirmed.
Hurry Up Tomorrow was introduced on Sept. 4, with a visible teaser and a press launch assertion explaining its place in The Weeknd’s trilogy as “the creative apex of the project, serving as the third and final chapter crafted with existential and self-referential themes as seen with the latest visionary teasers that have set fans ablaze with anticipation for this concluding installment.”
The album cowl adopted on Sept. 7, the date of The Weeknd’s anticipated livestream from São Paulo, the place he’s performing a particular one-night-only live performance at Estádio MorumBIS. (Watch beneath.)
Tesfaye composed the central music of his upcoming album in São Paulo just below a yr in the past, when his After Hours Til Dawn Tour introduced him to town in October for a two-night stint at Allianz Parque, Billboard Brazil first reported.
Of what’s to come back — the brand new present and Hurry Up Tomorrow — he informed Billboard Brazil, “There is always pressure to surpass my last project. Growth is important. Sometimes it may not be what people want to hear from me at the moment, but when the body of work is complete, I hope they can appreciate what I have been trying to achieve. I have been working on this discography for a long time. It was all planned.”
“I always try to achieve something that I haven’t done before musically,” he added. “Sometimes it may not be clear on the first listen [to the album], but fans seem to figure it out over time.”
Stream his live performance particular, dwell from São Paulo, courtesy of his YouTube channel (video embedded beneath) beginning at 8 p.m. ET tonight (Sept. 7).
