After Tuesday’s trio of leaks, there’s more new music from The Weeknd — this time, though, it’s official. “The Hills,” a track that Abel had previously performed at both SXSW and Coachella, received suitably dark and mysterious visuals along with its studio release.
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In the video, the singer gets into a car crash (presumably somewhere in “The Hills” alluded to in the song’s title), and instead of calling a tow truck, he decides to wander away into a spooky nearby mansion. He hinted at the video’s violence in an uncaptioned Instagram picture he shared this weekend of his (fake) bloodied face. Watch and listen to “The Hills” below: