First track “S.O.S.” arrives next week

The album Avicii was working on before his death last year is set for release, his family tells The New York Times. Tim comprises near-complete songs the artist born Tim Bergling had wanted to put out, his friends tell the Times.

A production and writing team including producers and collaborators Carl Falk, Albin Nedler, and Kristoffer Fogelmark turned the recordings into an album ranging between “psychedelia, Arabian music, sounds of the Caribbean and more,” according to the Times. The Chris Martin collaboration “Heaven” is also set to feature. Collaborators created the posthumous LP using Bergling’s notes, some written in his last days.

After Avicii, who was 28, died in April 2018, Geffen president Neil Jacobson told Variety, “It was his best music in years, honestly. He was so inspired. He was so psyched.” His family, who say the death was a suicide, has also set up a charity called the Tim Bergling Foundation, which will “support groups involved with mental health and suicide prevention,” the Times reports.