I am sceptical of yet another Aloe Blacc feature. Made sense in 2013 but now I'm not so sure. Makes me wonder if Avicii wanted this or if he's sung over the top of an instrumental he had in waiting just for nostalgia's sake (yes 2013 is many moons ago now). I'm excited for the album overall though.
Posted by: danG 10th April 2019, 07:41 AM
official cover art
coming out 8PM tonight UK time
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 10th April 2019, 03:59 PM
Short preview:
Really looking forward to this.
Posted by: Cqmerqn 10th April 2019, 05:46 PM
I’m sure it doesn’t matter whether or not Aloe Blacc is credited.
Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 10th April 2019, 05:47 PM
I'm getting Stories vibes from that preview, would love to hear more of that sound, one of my favourite albums of all time.
Posted by: Juan Carlos ⚡️ 10th April 2019, 06:54 PM
This was uploaded on Avicii's YouTube channel.
Posted by: fans for hilson 10th April 2019, 07:03 PM
Out now sounds really good!
Posted by: Juan Carlos ⚡️ 10th April 2019, 07:04 PM
Available on Spotify.
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 10th April 2019, 07:07 PM
Quite disappointed by it tbh. Really good build up, but a poor drop.
Still though, I'm looking forward to the album, particularly Heaven which sounds amazing from the demos. And I really hope this track grows on me as well.
Posted by: gavindeejay 10th April 2019, 07:15 PM
The song itself is nice enough but the drop is really weak unfortunately.
Posted by: danG 10th April 2019, 07:16 PM
It's great to have new Avicii music and this will no doubt get a lot of spins and possibly grow on me a fair bit... but judging on first listen this won't go down as an ultimate fave song of his. I really hope there's better songs on the album.
Posted by: Jαsє 10th April 2019, 07:19 PM
Really underwhelmed :/
Posted by: WhoOdyssey 10th April 2019, 07:20 PM
QUOTE(danG @ Apr 10 2019, 08:16 PM)
It's great to have new Avicii music and this will no doubt get a lot of spins and possibly grow on me a fair bit... but judging on first listen this won't go down as an ultimate fave song of his. I really hope there's better songs on the album.
Someone made a mastered version of demos for Heaven ft. Chris Martin is here, apparently the 'official' version will be on the album - https://vimeo.com/289922524
I reckon that one will go down as one of his classics in future years
Posted by: Cqmerqn 10th April 2019, 07:21 PM
Not a fan unfortunately, echoing what others have said here that I’m hoping there are better songs on the album.
Posted by: gavindeejay 10th April 2019, 07:21 PM
Definitely looking forward to Heaven! Could be a massive summer hit imo!
Posted by: BridgeCow 10th April 2019, 07:21 PM
I really like it, definitely agree about the drop, but it’s not awful to the point of being uncomfortable, it definitely has that Avicii vibe which I guess is what’s important. Aloe sounds great tho and it is incredibly catchy
Posted by: photografdemon 10th April 2019, 07:24 PM
I'm used to think that first singles are always more for creating fire and smoke than for listening to it for years after release. This one perfectly describes the rule. Couple of festival and 'tear squeezing' remixes to come please. The song itself is quite listenable as a background.
Posted by: darrens94 10th April 2019, 07:24 PM
I like this but the chorus reminds of me of No Scrubs/Shape Of You for some reason.
Posted by: Moses 10th April 2019, 07:26 PM
I like it on first listen tbh
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 10th April 2019, 07:42 PM
God, it sounds like Kygo. Keep it.
Posted by: lewistgreen 10th April 2019, 10:32 PM
I sort of indifferent on the first couple of listens so far
Posted by: stopped clock 10th April 2019, 10:49 PM
The idea of more Avicii music SOS sounds like a grower to me very Stories, although not sounding one of the stronger tracks, the verses are probably more enjoyable.
As for Heaven, I wish I could find the old version from years ago I used to obsess over (my copy got corrupted too) as I preferred it to the new Chris Martin one.
Posted by: Dexton 11th April 2019, 12:20 AM
I like it but I find it a bit hard to believe this is what he thought was “his best material in years”
Posted by: Moses 11th April 2019, 05:53 AM
QUOTE(Dexton @ Apr 11 2019, 01:20 AM)
I like it but I find it a bit hard to believe this is what he thought was “his best material in years”
I guess technically it's his first released material in 'years' (1 and a half)!
Posted by: danG 11th April 2019, 08:22 AM
They’re saying this upcoming album is his best work yet. I’ll only believe it when I hear it, True and Stories will be very hard to top.
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 11th April 2019, 08:23 AM
For me he pretty much completely lost it at Stories, that was such a disappointment.
Posted by: danG 11th April 2019, 02:18 PM
Straight in at #1 on Sweden Spotify with 334k streams and that was just in a few hours! Closing in on the top 10 on UK iTunes too and it should make its Spotify debut tomorrow.
Posted by: Rooney 11th April 2019, 06:20 PM
I like the track, but it's nothing groundbreaking and it's way too short.
'True' was a good album, but I found 'Stories' majorly disappointing. Would take a stab in the dark that 'Heaven' will be the track that's probably released just before the album..
Posted by: slowdown73 11th April 2019, 10:08 PM
Quite like the new track but nothing different really to his other stuff.
Posted by: gavindeejay 19th April 2019, 07:52 AM
S.O.S has been added to Radio 1's C List this week
Posted by: danG 17th May 2019, 10:41 AM
Laidback Luke remix out today
Posted by: lewistgreen 19th May 2019, 12:01 PM
Ya know I’ve done a complete u-turn on this and really like it! Hella catchy
SOS sounds like a grower to me 