By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It has an ethereal placelessness that’s made him one of the most striking and distinctive young forces in pop music, even more noteworthy because he’s almost impossible to mimic.

Its following singles like "Love In The Sky" and "Wanderlust" bolstered the album's monumental success. While 1200 units of The Green SuperJanky will be released, only 500 units of The Black SuperJanky figure will be released, and just a mere 200 units of The Red SuperJanky. Kiss Land also saw Abel Tesfaye take more creative control, producing the record almost entirely himself, with additional contributions by DannyBoyStyles, Sebastian Tellier, frequent Action Bronson collaborator, Harry Fraud and Pharrell. Lovely imagery on the packaging, bad poor orientation of the sleeves within each other - the gatefold slides out of the box DOWNWARD which could easily lead to accidental dropping as you remove the box from the shelf. On the strength of monster singles "Belong to the World" and "Kiss Land", the project caught fire, selling 95,000+ units in its first week and charting at No.Was so disappointed that it turned out to be more of a collector piece than something you could actually play and enjoy. You’ll have to pick the right 8-inch blind box – especially to garner a red one, the collection’s most rare and coveted colorway. Only gripe about the packaging is that the original inner sleeves are super super weak, and were already seam-split along the bottom. While the Weeknd went on to create even larger projects accumulating wider acclaim, eventually working with Lana Del Rey, Future, Travis Scott, and Kendrick Lamar to name a few, Kiss Land is a standout starting point to an avalanche of enormously celebrated success that was to come. You can tell that a lot of care was put into this release and I wish more artists/labels would do the same.

Hot on the heels of new album "After Hours", UMC has decided to deliver a fresh vinyl reissue of The Weeknd's 2013 debut studio album "Kiss Land". It was the album that launched his career into the stratosphere, and now five years later, The Weeknd’s Kiss Land is getting a limited-edition double LP reissue on green color vinyl via Urban Legends/UMe. While the original pressing of The Weeknd's Kiss Land was released in 2013, this special Green Translucent Vinyl edition was released in November of 2018 to help celebrate the five-year anniversary of the album. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.This is the deluxe edition of The Weeknd’s debut studio album, Kiss Land, which includes two bonus tracks, being a Pharrell Williams remix of “Wanderlust” and a remix of Kavinsky’s “Odd Look. The packaging is great, it really feels like you enter the Kiss Land universe when you have this record in your hands and open it. On a global level, Kiss Land broke the top 100 charts in several foreign countries including France, Australia, Germany, and Ireland.

The Weeknd would go on to release two more studio albums and his recent EP, My Dear Melancholy this past March, as well as collaborate with the likes of Lana Del Rey, Future, Travis Scott, and Kendrick Lamar to name a few, but Kiss Land serves as the starting point of where it all began. The 2013 release from the Canadian artist and producer is now available on colored vinyl with deluxe packaging. Credited as primary performer and executive producer, The Weeknd's debut, Kiss Land, propelled him towards the spotlight, garnering critical acclaim and rapid stardom.

To commemorate the occasion, Abel has teamed up with Superplastic for a limited-edition collection of vinyl toys. It’s surreal to look back on 10 years since the release of Kiss Land and to see the lasting impact this album has had on me as an artist and how it continues to be received by my fans,” The Weeknd said of the collection, which launches on Sept. The collection sees the classic SuperJanky model reworked with three new designs in striking green, red and black colorways. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.