Avicii - TrueTracks
1. Wake Me Up
2. You Make Me
3. Hey Brother
4. Addicted To You
5. Dear Boy
6. Liar Liar
7. Shame On Me
8. Lay Me Down
9. Hope There's Someone
10. Heart Upon My Sleeve
11. Long Road To Hell
12. Edom
Let's start this album off with singles Wake Me Up and You Make Me. I'm not really enjoying You Make Me that much. I don't think the vocalist has a good voice in the chorus. The verses are fine. But then the dance beat isn't very "dancy". It's kind of hard to move to this song. Wake Me Up, however, has a great dance beat. Avicii also switches the dance beat with the country/folk part in this track. And he got Aloe Blacc to be the vocalist. Aloe Blacc has nice vocals in this song. He even made an acoustic version by himself. There's no dance beat in that one. Wake Me Up has become a bigger hit than I thought it would be.
Next we have Hey Brother. Hey Brother is kind of like Wake Me Up. It has a country/folk tune to it. Except this track's dance beat also has that folk tune to it. I find that just a little more interesting. Anyone can move to Hey Brother and Wake Me Up. Avicii used Dan Tyminski as the vocalist in this track. Tyminski has good vocals. That's good. When you're a DJ, you not only want to use good dance beats. You need to make sure you have an artist good vocals.
Addicted To You is only 2:28 in length. So it's pretty short. The vocals are okay in this track. But when listening to the iTunes preview, the preview is so short that you can't even tell what the dance beat sounds like. That's all I have to say about this track.
Long Road To Hell has some good instruments. There is some really well work on the piano. But then it goes into this strange instrument. The vocalist sounds like the one from Addicted To You. There isn't much of a dance beat in this track. I think the dance beat is supposed to be that strange instrument.
Heart Upon My Sleeve has some tune you would hear at an orchestra. Then the beat comes in. This track has a decent beginning. But not something you can really move to. What I expect out of DJ's such as Avicii, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, and Zedd is a song I can dance to. Avicii and Zedd show that the most while Calvin Harris and David Guetta need to work on that a little more.
Finally, we come to the best track on this album. And that is Lay Me Down. Avicii not only got Adam Lambert to be the vocalist, he got Nile Rodgers to use his funky guitar. Nile does a great job with the guitar, Adam does an excellent job with the vocals, and Avicii does a beyond excellent job with the dance beat. This is the kind of song I expect from DJ's. They need a good dance beat and a great vocalist. And most people mention this song being their favorite in their reviews. Well done Avicii. You have become my favorite DJ of all time (so far).
People need to stop complaining and saying that Avicii is country. He's trying something new.
Ranking Of Album: 1 2 3 4
1. Lay Me Down
2. Hey Brother
3. Wake Me Up
