The Siouxie lift on ‘House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls’ is as about in your face as it gets. A mixtape in the loosest sense, House of Balloons is distinguished by Tesfaye’s impressive high tenor combined with a genuinely thrilling production from Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese (both share songwriting duties along with co-producer Doc McKinney) that find touchpoints across almost every urban and bloggy genre of the last decade.Īnd then there was the samples: with an magpie like zeal, the team plunder licks, samples and stylings from the most unexpected places – yet nothing appears too forced or sits unnaturally. If you haven’t been in the loop thus far, here’s the liner notes: In early 2011 a ‘mixtape’ drops online by unknown Tesfaye (previously a perfunctory R&B vocalist with Toronto collective The Noise).
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