http://soundcloud.com/theweekndxo/sets/the-weeknd-house-of-balloons-1

Easily the best release I've heard this year. Really withdrawn and emotive jams if you wanna be in the know. Abel's falsetto is so tight and when he hit breaks through in the last moments of What You Need - it feels so fresh. Lovely stuff.

With two more mixtapes on the horizon and The-Dream's Love Affair set for release this summer, what the shitting poo is going on with sexilicious R&B? On a tangent, I've been listening to early and mid naughties music of the same genre, I can't believe I dismissed that stuff at the time.