In some cases, Bergling's comments were more specific, particularly around using lesser-known vocalists for the features. "Within the same context-writing to himself about music-he also wrote, 'Transfer emotion to the song, and what emotion the song is written in will be transmitted.'" and enjoy success but not materialistic success,'” says Thordson.
“Just a couple of days before passing away, Tim had written in his iPhone notes, 'Spread positivity through my music. And as was one of Avicii’s signatures, there’s an introspective, darker tone to the lyrics that’s offset by the music's uplifting vibes. TIM’s first few singles (“SOS,” “Tough Love," and “Heaven,” which features Coldplay’s Chris Martin) are built on dance-pop’s foundations, but the scaffolding-touches of ’80s soft rock, acoustic strums, vaguely Eastern-sounding strings-makes them something different altogether, even if you could still spend a night on a beach dancing to them. The songs that were chosen for the final album, which was overseen by producers and songwriters Carl Falk, Albin Nedler, and Kristoffer Fogelmark, follow a similar direction to what Avicii had been pointed toward with the folk-pop feel of 2017’s Avīci (01) EP. (Thordson estimates the tracks were about 80 to 90 percent finished at the time of Bergling's death.) “No one is saying that this is 100% Tim, because that's impossible when you have a guy that is so particular and a perfectionist,” admits Thordson. From there, Avicii's co-producers and songwriters began their work-which was intentionally kept to a minimum.
After Thordson inventorized everything he could find-audio files, emails and text messages to his co-writers and label team, iPhone voice memos, notes in his Dropbox folders-he met with Bergling’s father, Klas, and a group of A&R people to whittle down five years’ worth of recordings into a shortlist of songs for the album. "He kept titled folders like 'These are the that I want to release' or 'These are the ones that I'm unsure of,’” Christopher Thordson, a member of Avicii's management team, tells Apple Music. Within weeks of his passing, his family asked his management to begin the process of combing through all his devices for the music he’d been working on. By the accounts of his friends and collaborators, not only was Bergling in good spirits near the end of his life, but he was well into the production of what would become his third full-length album. Tim Bergling, died by suicide in 2018, he left behind more than just unanswered questions-there were also somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 unreleased tracks and demos.
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