Avīci (01) [EP]
release date: 10 August 2017
Tracklist
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnxO_UPjpVk (feat. Vargas & Lagola)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruDrVMBCLaw (feat. Rita Ora)
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5pnNJGTwX0 (feat. Billy Raffoul)
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRz2MxhAdJo (feat. Sandro Cavazza)
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14TRb4w3BzY (feat. AlunaGeorge)
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipk1vxElOg (with Sandro Cavazza) [Avicii Remix]
'Lonely Together' official video
'Without You' official video
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I hope he goes back to stuff like Seek Bromance (my favourite Avicii song) and Levels.
I bet he'll be so big next year
Looking forward to this! Hoping to see some more of the world music influences that appeared on the second album
http://www.youredm.com/2017/07/13/avicii-teases-album-tracklist-instagram-audio-teaser/
Machu Picchu! <3 I wish Calvin promotes his music in my country though~
From https://www.instagram.com/p/BWfW7jVlV7K/:
Friend of Mine sounds like it could be INCREDIBLE in CDQ (as I assume it was just playing from a speaker in that clip). So so excited <3
Hopefully I can be back in full on stan mode and this is better than the Pure Grinding era.
listened to the audio teaser about five times so far, I am so ready for the full song though it sounds amaaaazing.
I didn't really like anything from Stories, I hope the time away has helped him find a sense of quality again.
At last, it's been too long.
2 EP's coming September/October and singles in August!
http://weraveyou.com/2017/07/avicii-release-new-album-two-separate-eps-fall/
Not keen on the 2 EPs idea, can he not just put all the songs on one album? Yay for rough dates though!
Can anyone decipher this too, looks like the track list
I can make out 'Without You' and 'Friend of Mine'.
Part 1: Lord
Without You
Lonely Together
Friend of Mine
You Be Love
What Would I Change It To
I hope to GOD that Without You is the single and hasn't been edited too much, loved it live, can see it doing well chartwise too
Agreed. Two EPs is almost the same length as an album I am moisturised for more Avicii tho
I think I can see from that image:
"Run ? Time",
"What Will/Would I ? It To"
lol his handwriting is even worse than mine
I hope he releases his song with sia as well and it makes it onto one of the spa. I can see his come back being big either way
Pretty sure that says Loud and not Lord
the article says it's titled Lord.
I'm not really a fan of "Lord" or "Loud" tbh. The latter is already taken by Rihanna
Well 'Lord' ruins the sentence I thought he was creating with his album titles That teaser gives me hope though!
'Lonely Together' preview http://www.youredm.com/2017/07/27/upcoming-avicii-single-lonely-together-preview-surfaces/ with the promise of new music coming very (very) soon.
That sounds like a huge chart hit in the waiting, it's got more of a tropical pop feel to it.
Also confirmed to have a Rita Ora collaboration!
ExCITE
Will listen when a YouTube video is up. I hope he doesn't become too 'dance-pop' looking at the possible Rita Ora collab.
I saw somewhere that lonely together features Rita Ora? Is that true?
If so then I'm a lot more hyped than I'd usually be!!
It doesn't sound like Rita Ora.
Besides, if it does feature her remember that Avicii doesn't give his featured vocalists an official credit.
At first I thought it sounded a little Julia Michaels but as it went on I was less & less convinced
It doesn't sound bad... but I'm still waiting for the studio version of Without You
Sounds like he will be releasing in the next week or two? Can see his first song being big.
Its a shame that there hasn't been a mention of his song with Sia (All I Need) but then I guess it could go on the second EP? I will be disappointed if he doesn't release it.
It sounds very similar to Rita Ora, and all the Rita fans are saying it is her in the comments - so yeah, it most probably is the Rita collab. It sounds absolutely BRILLIANT, though, that drop is going to sound so so good in CDQ
Yeah it's 100% a Rita collab, she's liked the post as well
Well many people thought it was Lana Del Rey in Dear Boy, and I think there was another vocal soundalike in a song so who knows
Just saw BC's post, it's pretty much confirmed it is Rita then :')
coming out 8 August?
Oh wow that early? Hyped
hopefully that's when the video is released, and we get the song this coming Friday. really don't want Avicii to do a midweek release as that could limit the New Music Friday boost he receives on Spotify (reckon he'll get an instant top 50 Spotify debut if the song is released Friday).
Chris Martin wasn't actually on 'Heaven'. That was just a rumour, it was in reality Simon Aldred (i.e. the vocalist of 'Waiting For Love').
Terrible quality sound but this version is unmistakably Chris Martin, and is much better than the Simon Aldred version too. 0:39
I remember a full version of the Chris Martin version bouncing around a couple of years ago, it was a live version and not great quality but sounded really great as a song. There was a Billie Joe Armstrong song in the works too but I'm not sure if that was a rumour or not
oh right, maybe both of them did it, that's a different version than the one i'm used to.
One of the guys of the picture above mentioned that they shot the music video of "Friend of Mine", contrary to the reports that "Without You" was going to be the first single.
I'm now confused as to what the first single is actually meant to be
Can't Avicii just drop the entire EP this Friday please?
Mystery boxes have been sent with a message from Avicii
This is sounding so good I actually can't wait
I must have played the snippet for Lonely Together at least 50 times... genuinely this could end up as my song of the year when it's out.
I am disappointed judging by the preview of Lonely Together, Avicii should be driving new trends, not doing a track in the current overused tropical style that all Scandinavian dance producers in particular seem to have got an unfortunate fetish for (must be the Kygo effect!)
Happily, the one shared by djtigerlily sounds a lot better, nice piano house and an interesting, I'm guessing Eastern European folk inspired electronic drop. Hopefully that one will be released first and not Lonely Together.
Haven't listened to any of the other previews yet, I must do so!
The EP is called 'Avīci' and will be out on August 10th. 'Without U' is a confirmed track.
THE WHOLE EP WHAT AHHHHH
Without U sounding amazing too
Just a week to go
So is one EP called Lord and the other Avici? Or have I missed something
AlunaGeorge!
he's crediting people now?
ALUNAGEORGE!!!!!!!!!
Is he actually crediting vocalists??
I've read (on reddit?) that he has a new management, so this may be the reason why that was changed (re: crediting the featured artists).
Avicii also confirmed that the EP will be released at 4PM CET on the Thursday (same as BST)
*.* at him possibly crediting vocalists, but that could just be his attempt to return to relevancy
Excited for that AlunaGeorge collab, would be interesting to have another dance song with AG after White Noise
That remix could do wonders as well. That MORTEN remix was a jam
Intrigued by the Rita collab
So no single release tomorrow? 'cause there's meant to be a video out on Tuesday.
There doesn't appear to be any info about a release tomorrow. If a video does happen, it can happen, it'll be like before OA/OS when videos were all a part of the hype and build up to a release of the song
Avicii to give Rita another smash pls
So if 'Avīci' means 'hell' in Buddism, what are the chances that the second EP will be a Buddist word for 'heaven'? Either that or he didn't want to be generic and have a self-titled EP so found an interesting word that's similar to his stage name to use instead.
He named himself Avicii after the Buddhist concept of 'Avīci', it was no accident or coincidence.
Official artwork
Available to pre-order on iTunes (£3.99) and we also know the running time of each track (it's a surprisingly short EP for six tracks). It also appears to be titled 'Avīci (01)' so presumably the second EP will be 'Avīci (02)'.
Tracklist
1. Friend Of Mine (feat. Vargas & Lagola) [2:39]
2. Lonely Together (feat. Rita Ora) [3:01]
3. You Be Love (feat. Billy Raffoul) [3:27]
4. Without You (feat. Sandro Cavazza) [3:01]
5. What Would I Change It To (feat. AlunaGeorge) [2:58]
6. So Much Better (with Sandro Cavazza) [Avicii Remix] [2:37]
total runtime: 17:43
I am so ready for the best 17 minutes and 43 seconds of the year.
The artwork is supercool but those tracks... they look too short maybe a few of them will have extended version in the future hopefully!
Also you can pre-save it to Spotify
http://umusic.global/avicii
They are quite short aren't they! Do we know which one (if any) he is promoting as a single? I assume it will be Friends of Mine (wasn't there a rumour the video had already been filmed?) or Lonely Together
I hope he hasn't scrapped All I Need (with Sia) and that it will appear on the second EP. I personally love that one so it will be a shame never to have it in HQ.
Hmm.. interesting meaning behind Avicii then.
At 17 minutes as an EP, will it classify as long enough to enter the Album Chart? I remember the Coldplay EP recently couldn't because it didn't make the minimum time but this has 6 tracks (compared to Coldplays 5) so will it?
The minimum time is 25 minutes so it won't be album chart eligible. And at £3.99 which is the same price as 'Kaleidoscope' it'd be too cheap to be classified as an album anyway.
3 Hours
http://player.lemonadebox.com/avicii-preorder
Coming at 3PM UK time!!!
My one complaint so far is that all the songs are too damn short b:
It's so good omg
initial thoughts:
1. Friend Of Mine (feat. Vargas & Lagola)
sounds very much like his 'Stories' material, would've sounded great as an album track on there. the drop is excellent with the synths reminding me of Waiting For Love.
2. Lonely Together (feat. Rita Ora)
Rita Ora really doesn't sound like herself on this, that's probably for the best though. sounds a bit more ~2017~ but still got that Avicii trademark sound, it has a similar BPM to tropical house but that's about it.
3. You Be Love (feat. Billy Raffoul)
this one is a bit more 'True' era sounding, reminds me of a few of the album tracks off that. the vocalist isn't particularly amazing but the production of course makes up for that.
4. Without You (feat. Sandro Cavazza)
now this is truly amazing, with any luck it'd be the big single though that's probably more likely to be 'Lonely Together' (edit: it appears this is getting an iTunes Hot Songs push, yay!). very uptempo and has a big chorus.
5. What Would I Change It To (feat. AlunaGeorge)
this is nice enough but a bit too chilled for Avicii, wish it built up to something bigger.
6. So Much Better (with Sandro Cavazza) [Avicii Remix]
this is quite chill for Avicii too but it has a better build up and better production overall.
I'd rank it something like this at the moment
1 - Without You
2 - Friend Of Mine
3 - Lonely Together
4 - You Be Love
5 - So Much Better
6 - What Would I Change It To
overall it's really good, so glad Avicii is finally back!
I got so used to the live extended version of Without You that this kind of feels like a heavily edited down radio version. It's still 10/10 and the best song on the EP but definately needs at least 30 seconds added to it's runtime.
I think the songs get worse as the EP goes on. Friend of Mine is definitely the standout for me, Lonely Together is decent to listen to, the next two are nice but not amazing and the AlunaGeorge collab is really a let-down
Shouldn't be complaining though, it's new Avicii!
Why does this EP sound like David Guetta.
4/10. Nothing new or exciting.
What is going on with the vocals on the Rita track?
The odd pitching?
keep it
Lonely Together is one of the best songs I've ever heard and I'm not exaggerating
I listened to 'Without You' and it's 10000000 better than anything from Stories (with ease). I did hope this time away would help him try and get back what he lost with that project.
I'll listen to the rest later.
LOVE 'lonely together', processed vocalz and the electronic layerz yes pls - it's not very avicii at ALL and is rly quite generic but it bangs
Rita is unrecogniseable on 'Lonely Together'. I'm disappointed, but I still like it, it's just I expected more from it due to Rita being involved.
Lonely Together is really great but definitely doesn't sound like normal Avicii, sounds more like a Cheat Codes production or something idk
EP sounds more pop but "Lonely Together" and "So Much Better" are good on my taste.
I'll give the EP as a whole a spin in the next week but really loving Lonely Together. I love the effect on Rita's vocals, makes everything feel really glossy somehow.
Lonely Together is amazing on first listen. I don't see why there was a need to pitch Rita's vocals so much though, it doesn't sound like her at all.
The EP is a solid listen! The Rita collab is definitely my highlight though, the more I hear it, the better it gets I think the pitched vocals sound fab too!
Really liking the Rita collab! (I also decided to give Without You a listen though due to the hype in this thread and utterly hated it.)
8.5 Without You - agree about Rita's vocals and how different Avicii's style is here! The vocals are kinda like how they'd be on #TRUE tho
9 You Be Love so Stories
8 Friend Of Mine
9 What Would I Change It To
10 Without You YES this is great TRUE teas again but with elements of his PGFABD style
Pretty decent EP with no mediocre song which I didn't expect after his last era although it's still not STRONG it's a decent release from him and I've no idea if the second EP will be better or of a lower standard
If I had to rank them...
1. Without You (11/10)
2. You Be Love (Gives do both True and Stories vibes )
3. What Would I Change It To (More chilled back and less Avicii-like but wonderful nonetheless)
4. Friend of Mine
5. Lonely Together
6. So Much Better
2 & 3 are very close, and 4 & 5 are very close.
decent EP, "Without You" is a pretty clear highlight, great chorus especially, we need more commercial dance tunes like this nowadays! Friend Of Mine & You Be Love are the other good ones
Is this is HMV? Didn't see it
Without You is definitely the right choice for big commercial push. It doesn't sound too dissimilar to his previous era but it does the job. Not mad about it on first listen but I see myself playing it a fair bit.
Lonely Together is an interesting one! Think I'm preferring that due to it being slightly different. Only heard Friend Of Mine of the rest & that's passable.
Nothing anywhere close to Waiting For Love but it's good to have him back as the current crop of mainstream dance hits are largely awful.
Not a fan of how Rita's vocals have been mixed on Lonely Together - she doesn't sound very good :/
Can't get enough of 'Lonely Together'. I think I'd like it even more if Rita's vocals weren't so pitched but I actually really like them like that too. Don't get the fuss with 'Without You' at all, it's so basic.
This week's charts in Sweden:
who else but Avicii? *.*.*.*
29 weeks for Despacito though
but yay at Avicii slaying
Unsurprisingly, the #1 album there also belongs to Avicii (the EP actually counts as an album there unlike in the UK chart)
(Despacito spent 16 weeks at #1 in Sweden, lol)
If only the UK appreciated Lord Bergling as much
This is amazing totally up for More Than You Know being so high too lol
Well home advantage sure helps there! Similar to how literally every Alan Walker or Kygo single goes top 10 in Norway regardless of its quality
Not quite our version of Ed Sheeran's Divide but not far off!
They were filming the music video for Lonely Together on Rita's ig story yesterday, so I guess this is the one they're pushing?
Yay at the best song on the album being the first to get a video! I guess this is just since it won't be a single, but imagine if he was pushing 3 songs at the same time
It's getting a proper music video as well! There's a preview of it if you talk to the Avicii Facebook Messenger bot.
I expect we'll get lyric videos for all of the EP songs, except for 'So Much Better (Remix)' as Avicii didn't upload the audio of that to his VEVO. And proper music videos for 'Friend', 'Lonely Together' and 'Without You'.
Lyric video for Lonely Together
Sweden's astronauts. I like space theme.
Avicii and Rita Ora are performing ''Lonely Together' on the Strictly Come Dancing launch show.
I'm really enjoying Lonely Together now so glad to see it get a push as a single!
"Lonely Together" is such a grower! I still don't understand why Rita has been completely de-humanised in it but a banger's a banger.
I NEED EXTENDED VERSIONS OF THESE THE DROPS ARE TOO SHORT
Great performance! Glad to see this doing well, #8 on iTunes now and #26 on Spotify - odd that it's still around the same position on the latter despite shooting up the former! I can see this missing the official top ten but another decent-sized top 20 hit isn't bad at all.
Ffs not Lonely Together being a banger
Liam stanning an Avicii song tho *_
Sorry if it’s already been mentioned but is the next EP coming out soon #impatientstan
supposedly sometime later this year but we've no confirmation of it.
I like the concept but why the camera?
Love it!
Great video!
Brilliant!
so pleased that this is set up to be a massive smash
Without You (ft Sandro Cavazza) is the only one I like on this EP sadly. 'Without You' though makes it up for me by being imo one of the best dance songs of the year so far.
I particularly like the drop in it and the buildup, the last drop in particular with those synths is actually a little bit 2002 eurodance reminiscent I think, albeit with a slower beat.
'Without You' remixes out now on https://open.spotify.com/album/1AfR1BikQIxySHAOIvCZKr.
Does anyone know if he is still planning to release the second EP in October?
He hasn't said anything about it. I wouldn't expect anything until November at the earliest.
Guess it's a more efficient tactic to spread out a batch of new songs over a long period of time I'm forever hearing Lonely Together on the radio so he's probably waiting for that to die down before even considering dropping Pt 2.
Without You remixes are out now
Jaded and DJ Licious have done remixes for Lonely Together too but not sure when they're going to be released.
That Merk & Kremont remix
Hyped for those Jaded and DJ Licious remixes of Lonely Together too
Every time I see this bumped up I think it’s info on the next EP x.x
Too late to hope 'Without You' gets some kind of push? I'm still loving it, and I'm a bit bitter the immensely dull Rita Ora colab got a push and did something whilst that was just swept under the carpet.
I want the next EP asap, enough with the music videos for non singles Avicii and just get on with it
Still waiting for Friend of Mine to be a worldwide smash and beat all of Ed Sheeran's streaming records
You Be Love is the least best song in the EP though!
MTV Dance has added both 'You Be Love' and 'Friend Of Mine' onto their playlist rotation this week. Looks like they're not quite done with this EP yet, though it doesn't necessarily mean either will do anything at all
Both decent, not as strong as "Lonely Together" or "Without You" but good enough. The EP is a good listen - have given it a go for the first time this morning.
Would be nice to see Avicii get another hit not on Rita’s name power alone.
Without You deserved so much better than #32.
'Lonely Together' didn't sell just from Rita's name power, sure it helped but Avicii is clearly a big enough name to get hits without big name artists.
I think Rita's name undoubtedly helped, certainly as far as the UK goes as she's a much bigger name than he is right now. However, I think it's exactly what he needed having been away for a while and how the Stories era didn't go quite as well as True.
I never really got the love for Without You, it didn't feel like anything new to me really while Lonely Together is much fresher for him!
He should really have seized the opportunity by now to follow up Loney Together quite quick before his resurgence becomes quickly forgotten. It was the perfect springboard to another hit... but it’s getting later and later as each week and month passes.
Lonely Together was co produced with Cashmere Cat, who is the one who makes LT sound so different to Avicii's "regular" stuff
I really can't wait for Avīci (02) whenever that is apparently coming, hopefully we'll get news sometime soon since the singles from 01 have died down in most places by now. I'd be happy with 5/6 more songs like what he gave us in August, although I hope some of it goes over 3:30 this time
Yeah I would like it if he gave us some news on EP 2 soon, it's been half a year since 01 now and the momentum is being lost.
Not Avīci (02) news
Without You has just passed 100 iTunes plays for me (since the counter reset in April 2017)! A big accomplishment really as it's only the second song to do so - Lonely Together is also not far behind in 3rd place. So... there's a bit of Avicii news to keep us going I guess x.x
So close to half of this EP passing 100 plays for me (lol at the huge quality gap between the top and bottom three)
01. Lonely Together (137 plays)
02. Without You (122 plays)
03. Friend Of Mine (96 plays)
04. So Much Better (49 plays)
05. What Would I Change It To (47 plays)
06. You Be Love (39 plays)
This puts those three in my all-time Avicii top 10 too.
01. Levels (355 plays)
02. Wake Me Up (200 plays)
03. I Could Be The One (163 plays)
04. Waiting For Love (155 plays)
05. Lonely Together (137 plays)
06. Hey Brother (130 plays)
07. Without You (122 plays)
08. Rapture (Remix) (105 plays)
09. Silhouettes (104 plays)
10. Friend Of Mine (96 plays)
142 Lonely Together
5 Without You
1 each for the rest
:')
Can't be long before my LT playcount outdoes yours, considering it's still in my personal top 20!!
22 - Friend of Mine
13 - Lonely Together
12 - Without You
12 - You Be Love
2 - What Would I Change It To
2 - So Much Better
Not played any since they went off my playlist
We are apparently getting the 'True Stories' documentary arriving on Netflix this Saturday based on an instagram pic from the director (rumoured on https://www.reddit.com/r/avicii/comments/87ag6w/director_of_true_stories_just_posted_this_on/)
As for when EP #2 does arrive I'm going to predict August, we'll probably only get one EP a year at this rate.
So much potential, its very sad particularly considering the fact that it was called Avīci (01), which does sound like to me he had maybe planned to do even more than 1 follow up EP
Hopefully there will be enough material for a second EP to be released.
The plan was for there to be three EPs which would be combined together eventually to make the third studio album. Don't expect we'll get that anymore. Hopefully there is enough finished unreleased material for at least one more EP.
Ive ordered the e.p. On CD from CD Japan. About £14 including postage and contains an additional remix. I have his first two albums but don’t have the e.p. and wanted to buy it a while ago but now feels the right time as a celebration of his excellent discography.
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