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Review: A kinder, gentler (but still freaky) Weeknd delivers 2022's first great album, 'Dawn FM'

It says a lot about the Weeknd that his sunniest album — the one he's framed as a kind of light at the end (???) of our long pandemic tunnel — contains not one but two songs about erotic asphyxiation.

The first you know: "Take My Breath," which dropped last summer as an advance single from the Canadian pop-soul auteur's brand-new "Dawn FM" even as his previous LP's smash "Blinding Lights" was still stubbornly installed on the Hot 100.

The second is "Gasoline," a sleek robo-funk jam that properly opens "Dawn FM" after an introduction featuring the actor Jim Carrey

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