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And just at a time when many skeptics were worried it was impossible for sonic change.

It’s shining bright to make way for a new breed of music. He’s lighting a new multi-hued fire with True. Enter a mature Bergling who needn’t live in the fumes. The memory of Avicii’s 2011 rampant global sensation and Grammy-nominated anthem “Levels” has been snuffed out-smoked up the chimney of youthful playtime sing-alongs. Mae’s Adelle-reminiscent power lungs stab at the gut, ripping your heart out in the very best way possible. He’s sprinkled the big-room sound methodically onto each track, including “Addicted to You” and “Shame on Me,” two emotive arias starring Oklahoma songstress Audra Mae. This is not to say Avicii’s token whirlwind synths are missing on the LP. The pandemic popularity of “Wake Me Up” is validation the Swede doesn’t need a rented whip to render horsepower. Today, the 24-year-old Avicii is not only almost old enough to rent a car, he’s also topped music charts in over 65 countries with the savagely trendy, “ Wake Me Up”-a tune that can adequately be described as “country-step.” A hybrid of progressive breaks and twanged vocals, featuring diverse collaborators R&B singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc and Mike Einziger of Incubus. As Melinda Newman explains in her HitFix review, “ wants to make you move, but he also wants to make you feel something.” She admits that the album may miss the mark for some “purists,” but argues that the album invites everybody to join the party, “even if we never step foot in a club.A mere five years ago, young Tim Bergling was dabbling in sound mixology from his bedroom in Stockholm. Whether it’s the diversity of influence in True or the established EDM emphasis that draws you, there is something for almost everybody to like. Vibe‘s Sarah Polonsky does an excellent job of capturing the critical response to Avicii’s release, describing True as “a 10-track game of genre Double Dutch.” She adds: “Somehow, Bergling doesn’t slip up in the ropes.”

“All of this proves that Avicii’s new sound is much more than a page from Moby‘s Play book.” “The Swede’s debut album picks up on this Mumford & Synths sound for a set of folk, soul and addictive house beats,” Rolling Stone‘s Caryn Ganz describes.

True accomplishes this in several ways, the most notable of which involves cross-genre integration. The decision to step outside of the mainstream serves as a testament to the artist’s dedication to creative authenticity. PHOTOS: Electric Daisy Carnival 2013 in Pictures “That small distinctions, that kernel of truth, could be what catapults Avicii from superstar DJ to flat-out superstar.” “Instead of pop stars dialing in towlines over prefab beats, based on musicians writing songs, together in a room,” Mason writes. The atmosphere surrounding Avicii is electric and critics are abuzz:īillboard‘s Kerri Mason points to the nuances in Avicii’s style as the markers of his appeal. Now, with an enormous following and a fresh album, Avicii has become a face for musical innovation within the EDM community.

PHOTOS: EDM Titans: Dance Music’s 10 Highest Paid DJsīefore Avicii’s international breakthrough, he was just a 20-year-old Swede with a synthesizer, producing tracks his home.