''True'' is the debut
studio album
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by Swedish
electronic music
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producer
Avicii
Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first rec ...
, released on 13 September 2013 by PRMD Music and
Island Records
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, anoth ...
. Avicii said that sonically, the album would move away from his earlier
house music
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sound on previous records by incorporating elements of other genres such as
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
. ''True'' was preceded by the release of the
Aloe Blacc
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born January 7, 1979), known professionally by his stage name Aloe Blacc (), is an American singer, songwriter and rapper. He is best known for his singles "I Need a Dollar", " The Man", which topped the charts in th ...
-assisted "
Wake Me Up" that featured a rare Marantz Enhanced Digital Stereo audio track and topped several charts around the world, and "
You Make Me
"You Make Me" is a song written and recorded by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii and Swedish musician and singer Salem Al Fakir in collaboration with Swedish songwriter Vincent Pontare and producer Arash Pournouri. It was produced for Avi ...
", which features vocals from Swedish artist
Salem Al Fakir
Lars Salem Al Fakir (born 27 October 1981) is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He regularly collaborates with Vincent Pontare as the songwriting and production duo Vargas and Lagola. Together, they have worked with many ...
.
''True'' debuted at number two on the
UK Albums Chart
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and peaked within the top-ten of at least ten countries; it subsequently re-peaked at number two on the chart in February 2014. On 24 March 2014, Avicii released a
remixed version of the album titled ''True (Avicii by Avicii)''. A two-disc edition, comprising the standard 10-track edition alongside the remix album featuring a new album cover, was released in June 2014.
Background and composition
Since starting work on a studio album, Avicii stated on multiple occasions that the material on the album will not be a replication of his earlier hits like "
Levels
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" and "
Silhouettes
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" but rather an experimental and more synthetic record. In his own words, he wanted to bring "disruption" to the
electronic dance music scene, which he described as "half stuck". Speaking to music magazine ''
Billboard
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'' about the new album, Avicii said in response to an
earlier conflict at the Ultra Music Festival that he wanted to "bring 15 minutes of something fresh to break
ltraup." In context to the listener's reactions to the heavy
bluegrass and
country music
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influences, he additionally stated, "We knew people would be provoked". He further explained that ''True'' "is about me being true to my sound but also to my own influences and musical preferences. For me it will be successful if it resonates with people – no matter how many. It's what I stand for, so whoever loves it loves what I love. That's what fans are to me."
In 2022, Avicii's biography was released four years after his death. Amongst the anecdotes in the work was revealed that Avicii had wanted to collaborate with American icons such as:
Paul Simon
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,
Mick Jagger
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("who said no"),
Van Morrison
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As a teenager in t ...
("who's representatives were vague in their answer"), while a representative from
Interscope Records
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was unable to get in touch with
Slash
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* Nash ...
,
Stevie Wonder
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or
Sting
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regarding potential collaborations. According to ''Billboard'', there was little interest from the musicians: "For these contented men, whose career peaks were at least twenty years behind them, Avicii was at best an obscure Swede with a summer hit."
Promotion
In April 2013, Avicii released a 60-minute promotional mix of new album material on the online audio distribution platform
SoundCloud
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. The mix featured several unreleased tracks from the album like "
Wake Me Up" and songs featuring
Dan Reynolds
Daniel Coulter Reynolds (born July 14, 1987) is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Imagine Dragons. Reynolds also released an EP in 2011, titled ''Egyptian – EP,'' as a duo with his former wife A ...
and
Mac Davis
Morris Mac Davis (January 21, 1942 – September 29, 2020) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. A native of Lubbock, Texas, he enjoyed success as a crossover artist, and during his early career he wrote for Elvis Presley, ...
, and has been played over three million times. According to ''Billboard'', the album was due for release on 17 September 2013.
Ultra Music Festival
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Avicii performed at the 2013
Ultra Music Festival
Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in Miami, Florida, United States. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes.
It was first held on Miami Beach, bu ...
on 22 March 2013, revealing nearly forty minutes of new album material from ''True'', to which he received a mixed to negative response from critics, fans and media alike. The new material, which incorporated
bluegrass and
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
elements, and included live performances from Aloe Blacc, backed by a
banjo
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and
kazoo
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, saw a negative response at the festival, whose attendees criticized the DJ for bringing the experimental material to a high-profile
electronic dance music festival. Some fans and following musicians also took to social media sites like Twitter to bash the performance. Dubstep/electro house musician
Jake Stanczak, better known as Kill the Noise, tweeted: "What are the similarities and differences between Avicii and
Al Walser? Discuss." Producer
Tommie Sunshine
Tommie Sunshine (born Thomas Lorello; March 26, 1971) is a record producer, remixer, DJ and songwriter of electronic music from Chicago currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for creating dance remixes to popular rock and alternativ ...
tweeted: "I just listened to @Avicii's @ultramusic Festival Main Stage set; did he jump the #EDM shark?"
However, fans and high-profile musicians were quick to support Avicii and praise his performance at the Ultra Music Festival. Russian producer
Zedd
Anton Zaslavski (russian: Антон Заславский; born 2 September 1989), known professionally as Zedd (), is a Russian-born German disc jockey, DJ, record producer, and songwriter.
Zedd grew up and began his musical journey in Kaise ...
said in response to a negative comment about the performance, "I only heard a couple of those country-sounding tracks and I really liked them!" Avicii's manager Ash Pournouri stated on Twitter: "So proud of @Avicii set at @ultramusic. Everyone will understand in a week. Stay calm and keep hyping the album."
On 26 March, Avicii went on Facebook to respond to the negative reaction to the Ultra Music Festival performance. He stated in an extended response, "we wanted to make a statement, and theres really no better place to make one than UMF mainstage. People will soon see what it's all about.
..My music is open to anyone who wants to listen to it and I will always stay true to my sound. Love you all who listen with open hearts and open minds."
''True'' Reveal
On 13 August 2013, Avicii premiered his ''#TrueReveal'' project. Avicii's management set up an experiment, featuring a glass cube, of which was surrounded by large speakers, and in the cube contained the album artwork for ''True''. Twitter users could tweet a true meaning about themselves using the hash-tag #TrueReveal, and the more users who did this, the more volume of Avicii's second single from the album was directed at the glass cube, until it would break, releasing the album artwork. The experiment ended on 14 August 2013, at 3:29 pm EST. The experiment achieved over 100,000 tweets at 3:13, but the glass still did not break. A crane was called in and a worker threw the hook of the crane into the glass, breaking it, and revealing the album cover.
Later on, the second part of True Reveal was announced. "Track Ambassador" is a project that aims to make 15-second teasers on Instagram to each song on the album. The most voted teasers will be selected as the official ones and the creators will be involved in the making of the official full music video. The winners were revealed on 17 September 2013.
''True (Avicii by Avicii)''
On 17 February 2014, manager Ash Pournouri, confirmed through his Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram
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pages that Avicii was due to release a remix edition of ''True'', containing a remake of all the tracks in ''True'' remixed by Avicii himself, however, "Heart Upon My Sleeve", "Canyons", "Edom", "Long Road to Hell", "All You Need Is Love," and "Always on the Run" were not remixed. On 20 February, it was confirmed that the remix edition was due to be released on 24 March 2014.
Singles
"
Wake Me Up" was released as the
lead single
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Release s ...
from ''True'' on 17 June 2013. The song was first premiered on
Pete Tong
Peter Michael Tong, (born 30 July 1960) is an English disc jockey who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as ''Essential Mix'' and ''Essential Selection'' on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio stre ...
's show on
BBC Radio 1
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on 14 June 2013. The song, which features vocals from
Aloe Blacc
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born January 7, 1979), known professionally by his stage name Aloe Blacc (), is an American singer, songwriter and rapper. He is best known for his singles "I Need a Dollar", " The Man", which topped the charts in th ...
, has so far charted on 20 national singles charts, peaking at number one in ten countries, including the Australian
ARIA Charts
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and the Swedish
Sverigetopplistan
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charts. The song has also peaked at number four on the ''
Billboard
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''
Hot 100
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. The song features a
Marantz
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The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Saul Marantz in his home in Kew Gardens, New York. ...
enhanced digital audio track.
"
You Make Me
"You Make Me" is a song written and recorded by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii and Swedish musician and singer Salem Al Fakir in collaboration with Swedish songwriter Vincent Pontare and producer Arash Pournouri. It was produced for Avi ...
", featuring vocals from Swedish
soul
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Etymology
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/pop singer
Salem Al Fakir
Lars Salem Al Fakir (born 27 October 1981) is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He regularly collaborates with Vincent Pontare as the songwriting and production duo Vargas and Lagola. Together, they have worked with many ...
was revealed as the album's second single on 16 August 2013, when it received its worldwide radio premiere on
Pete Tong
Peter Michael Tong, (born 30 July 1960) is an English disc jockey who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as ''Essential Mix'' and ''Essential Selection'' on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio stre ...
's
BBC Radio 1
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dance music show.
[Tong, Pete; (16 August 2013). ''The Pete Tong Show''. ]BBC Radio 1
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). The single was released in Australia and New Zealand on 30 August 2013 and was scheduled in the United Kingdom for 15 September 2013, a day before the album's release in that region. The song, so far, has charted within the top 40 in several countries including the
Netherlands
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, Germany, Australia and Ireland. Notably, the single has peaked at number one in Avicii's home country of Sweden, the top five in the United Kingdom, and at number 44 on the
Canadian Hot 100
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.
"
Hey Brother
"Hey Brother" is a dance song by Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii from his debut studio album, '' True'' (2013). American bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski provides vocals for the track. It was written by Avicii, Ash Pournouri, Salem Al Fak ...
" was serviced to radio on 9 October 2013 as the album's third single in Australia, and on 1 October 2013 in Denmark. On 28 October 2013, it was released as the album's third single in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
It was released to US
Triple A radio on 18 November 2013.
"
Addicted to You" impacted Australian radio on 27 November 2013 as the album's fourth single. "
Addicted to You" had a lyric video release on
Avicii
Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first rec ...
's VEVO page on 24 January 2014.
"
Lay Me Down" was released as the fifth single from ''True''; it was released to Australian radio on 21 April 2014.
Critical reception
''True'' received generally positive reviews. At
Metacritic
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, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69, based on seven reviews, which indicates "generally positive reviews".
Philip Sherburne from ''
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'' magazine gave the album a positive review. In his review of ''True'', Sherburne said "Avicii inhabits his newfound
country-pop
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shtick so naturally that you may wonder whether he somehow internalized
Ralph Lauren
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's aesthetic, or whether 'going country' was part of the business plan all along... It may be a sprawling hodge-podge, but all this works more often than you'd expect."
''
Rolling Stone
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''s Caryn Ganz also gave the album a positive review, complementing the diversity of the guest musicians. In her review, Ganz said "Dan Tyminski of Union Station sings the grand Appalachian stomper "Hey Brother," and Imagine Dragons penned "Heart Upon My Sleeve." True saves room for two funky disco jams featuring banging diva vocals from Audra Mae and Adam Lambert. All of this proves that Avicii's new sound is much more than a page from Moby's Play book.
''
PopMatters
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''s Francesca D'Arcy-Orga agreed, saying that "Avicii takes his listeners on a journey with ''True''... it is an album that takes one type of music and moulds it into something completely different, allowing Avicii to cement himself as one of the best DJs in the world.
However, David Jeffires of
AllMusic
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gave the album a mixed-positive review, saying "
Country music
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and
bluegrass keep winding their way into the album, and while it rarely smacks of a gimmick, these rustic numbers often evolve into
EDM
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around their drum machine-introducing choruses
..In the end, it's an admirable and interesting effort where the highs offset the lows, but those with molly in hand and dancing shoes on feet should just cool their jets and get ready to sit a spell."
Blue Sullivan's review for ''
Slant Magazine
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'' only awarded the album 0.5 out of five stars, saying that "Fans will likely write this off as churlish hatred of pop EDM, but there are other artists that are more than capable of arousing genuine dance-floor thrills
..Moreover, these artists' best material convincingly conveys something Avicii's work rarely does: a bone-deep love of this music and a palpable desire to create art their beloved EDM ancestors would be proud of."
''True'' ranked 7th on the list The 40 Greatest Dance Albums of the Decade: Staff List by Billboard in 2019.
Track listing
Notes
*
signifies co-producer
Remix album / CD 2 of two-disc edition
Personnel
Vocals
*
Adam Lambert
Adam Mitchel Lambert (born January 29, 1982) is an American singer and songwriter. Since 2009, he has sold over 3 million albums and 5 million singles worldwide. Lambert is known for his dynamic vocal performances that fuse his theatrical tra ...
(track 8)
*
Aloe Blacc
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (born January 7, 1979), known professionally by his stage name Aloe Blacc (), is an American singer, songwriter and rapper. He is best known for his singles "I Need a Dollar", " The Man", which topped the charts in th ...
(tracks 1 and 6)
*
Audra Mae
Audra Mae (born February 20, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is the great-great-niece of Judy Garland, and a great granddaughter of Garland's sister Jimmie. Since arriving in California in 2007, she has ...
(tracks 4, 7 and 11; "Long Road to Hell")
*
Blondfire (track 6)
*
Dan Tyminski
Daniel John Tyminski (born June 20, 1967) is an American bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of Alison Krauss's band Union Station, and has released three solo albums, ''Carry Me Across the Mountain'' (2000), on ...
(track 3)
*
Linnea Henriksson
Ellen 'Linnea' Petrea Henriksson (born 9 November 1986) is a Swedish singer and songwriter who participated in '' Idol 2010'' in which she placed fourth. , she is also the lead singer of the jazz band Prylf. In 2012 Henriksson released her first ...
(track 9)
*
Karen Marie Ørsted (track 5)
*
Noonie Bao
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(track 11 (Amazon Europe) /12 (Japanese Edition); "Always on the Run")
*
Ruth-Anne (track 11 (Japanese Edition) /12 (Spotify); "All You Need Is Love")
*
Salem Al Fakir
Lars Salem Al Fakir (born 27 October 1981) is a Swedish musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He regularly collaborates with Vincent Pontare as the songwriting and production duo Vargas and Lagola. Together, they have worked with many ...
(track 2 and 3; "Hey Brother (Avicii by Avicii)")
*
Sterling Fox
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Life and Times
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(track 7)
Instruments
*
Mac Davis
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– guitar (tracks 4)
* Peter Dyer – keyboards (tracks 1, 6, 7), talkbox (7)
*
Mike Einziger
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– guitar (tracks 1, 6)
*
Nile Rodgers
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– guitar (tracks 8)
Production
*
Tim Bergling
Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first rec ...
– producer, mixer
* Stuart Hawkes – mastering
* Arash Pournouri – co-producer
Charts
Weekly charts
''True''
''True (Avicii by Avicii)''
Year-end charts
''True''
''True (Avicii by Avicii)''
Certifications
Release history
References
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2013 debut albums
Albums produced by Nile Rodgers
Avicii albums
Island Records albums
Country albums by Swedish artists
Bluegrass albums
Soul albums by Swedish artists