A New Avicii Album Is Being Released Over A Year After His Death

Nearly per year immediately after Avicii's death, the music that he was working on before his untimely passing is getting released. The Swedish producer's family member and collaborators have revealed in an interview with the New York Times that his first posthumous album will arrive this summer.


Titled Tim — soon after Avicii's birth name, Tim Bergling — the album is comprised of music that the EDM star was working on before his tragic death at the age of 28 last April. The songs on Tim were mentioned to be "75 to 80 percent" done, and a number of of Avicii's longtime collaborators — with support from his family member — finished the process using perplexing notes he left on his phone and computer, some of which were written in his final days." The new songs are mentioned to incorporate elements of "psychedelia, Arabian music, sounds of the Caribbean and more."


Producer Carl Falk instructed them Times, "I was attempting to produce through someone else's eyes and ears — someone who's not here. It was really hard not to criticize yourself the entire time. Would he like this? What would he have done?"


Those challenges aside, "the album felt coherent and personalized mentioned Johnny Tennander, Avicii’s publisher at Sony/ATV. "It should be released," added the late musician's father, Klas Bergling.


Tim will be preceded by an individual called "S.O.S.," Which features vocals from Aloe Blacc, who memorably sang on Avicii's 2013 hit "Wake Me Up." Proceeds from the album will go to the Tim Bergling Foundation, a charitable company that his family member began group in attempt to help treatment of mental illness and suicide.