On what might be his last album as the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye revisits much of the sonic and thematic territory that has defined his career, singing of his darker impulses and debauchery over moody synth-pop beats.

For a decade and a half, the Toronto singer and songwriter Abel Tesfaye — d.b.a .The Weeknd — has explored the flip side of that feel-good story in sometimes-excruciating depth. The Weeknd’s music, from his atmospherics-drenched mixtapes that launched his career to the pop gems that propelled him to the Super Bowl stage in 2021,