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Stories is the second studio album by Swedish electronic music producer Avicii, released on 2 October 2015 by PRMD Music and Island Records. It was produced by Avicii along with Salem Al Fakir, Alex Ebert, Carl Falk, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Martin Garrix, Dhani Lennevald, Ash Pournouri, Albin Nedler, and Vincent Pontare on several tracks. It is the final album to be released during his lifetime, before his death in 2018. This album was followed by his third and final album, Tim, which was released posthumously in June of 2019. Stories was released to mixed to positive reviews from critics. Four singles were released from the album: "Waiting for Love", "Pure Grinding", "For a Better Day", and "Broken Arrows", along with the promotional singles "Ten More Days" and "Gonna Love Ya". Stories has sold one million copies worldwide as of November 2015, and was the fourth most-streamed album of the year worldwide on Spotify.
Never heard of them and and as a bloke who's nearly 50 there's a reason why, but I have to give this 5 stars as it was absolutely superb!
I met a big fat Austrian guy at the pub once who controlled the jukebox with Avicii every song. We were playing decent rock music and all he did was put on Avicii songs. He was very annoying and he wasn't any good at pool. I don't see the appeal of Avicii. It's vaguely catchy, but it seems cheesy and annoying. 2/5.
God knows what amazing music Avicii would've still made. Died way too young. Amazing album
Lmao who added this 3 Think it's ok for this list because to me it perfectly describes what was popular in 2015. But do you have to listen to it? No. I would be surprised if you hadn't already. Though it was sad how it ended in 2018
This kind of thing doesn't generally do a while lot for me; this wasn't an exception. Pleasant enough listen, interesting range of vocalists, felt more like a compilation than a cohesive album to me.
Solid collection of the worst musical trend of the 2010s. EDM was primed for the internet age, an entire genre of zero patience and instant gratification – the longest verse on this LP can’t be more than thirty seconds, the entire production rushing to get to the drop and deliver another dopamine hit for maximum addiction. Theres little (if any) dynamic contrast, meaningful melodies, creative instrumentation, or anything that would push this into the category of art rather than product. It’s the kind of music that was made to be background noise to YouTube influencer videos, and I found plenty of examples when I searched the track tags to confirm that hypothesis. I love electronic music because it provides a palette beyond the limits of physical instruments – modern DAWs can make just about any noise you can imagine and have nearly infinite options. That’s why it’s so frustrating to see cookie-cutter, default synth setting work get big and mar people’s perception of what electronica can be. Listen to some progressive house, DnB, complextro – anything that takes more than one brain cell to appreciate and doesn’t just push your lizard brain reward circuits for an easy hit.