[1] The following year, he released the compilation album Trilogy, which contained his earlier projects with three newly recorded tracks.

[2] The Weeknd began work on his debut studio album Kiss Land in 2013; he revealed the title and cover artwork on March 17.

"Kiss Land" was released to the iTunes Store on May 17, 2013, and lasts for seven minutes and thirty-six seconds, it contains a sample of "La Ritournelle" by French musician Sébastien Tellier.

[6] Global Grind's Brittany Lewis described the song as "hypnotic",[7] while Carl Williott of Idolator thought that the use of a woman's scream brought a "sinister lothario thing to absurd new heights".

[5] VH1 India gave "Kiss Land" a 7/10 citing it as "An impressive sequential plunge into the Weeknd's cryptic tide, but as he himself so coyly reminds us,"This is nothing to relate to," and we may have already extended our invitation".