The Weeknd and his comb had a fight.

The-Dream has been complaining for years that several other artists in the music industry have cloned his sound and The Weeknd’s new song, “Kiss Land”, provides a perfect example of that. Yet, the latter has out-cooed his inspiration on the bass-heavy title track of his first studio album of fresh material later this year.

The Kiss Land album follows The Weeknd’s Trilogy compilation set, which has sold north of 340K copies in the US to date. The lead single from the new record will be “John Carpenter” and the crooner graciously shared a snippet of the song with “Kiss Land”. Listen to the music below:

It’s refreshing to hear The Weeknd moving simple wafter vocals and applying his voice to songs with faster tempos but the lyrics of these tracks will definitely prevent them from scoring radio airplay. Still, I sense that with an underground following as massive as his, crossing over to the mainstream formats isn’t on his agenda. So, hopefully his current  fans will support Kiss Land because he won’t attract many new listeners in the near future.