True

True was Avicii’s big debut album, and it’s fine. It’s decent, but it’s nothing mind-blowing or revolutionary. You can’t deny it has the hits: tracks like Wake Me Up and Hey Brother were absolutely everywhere back then. You couldn’t walk into a store, turn on the radio, or open YouTube without hearing them. And sure, they’re catchy, they stick with you, but looking back, the album as a whole doesn’t hit that hard.

A lot of it feels a little too polished, a little too clean, almost like it’s playing it safe. It’s got the typical EDM sound with some country and folk influences here and there, which was kind of fresh at the time, but when you listen to the whole album, it can start feeling a bit generic and even a little bland. 

That being said, it’s definitely listenable. It’s not bad by any means but it’s just not super exciting either. True did its job: it made Avicii a superstar, it gave us some massive anthems, but as an album experience, it doesn’t do enough.