Avicii Confirms More EPs and Full Album On The Way In BBC Radio 1 Interview
Avicii sat down with BBC Radio 1’s historic host, Pete Tong recently to discuss the release of his latest self titled EP. The EP was a return to production after over a year break from releasing new music. So far it has been met with both critical and fan acclaim.
During the interview Avicii was quoted discussing that the release of his most recent EP was the first of many. It sounds like that there are more EPs and a full album on the way from the legendary Tim Bergling. Read his full statement below:
“I’m really excited to be back with music once again, it has been a long time since I released anything and a long time since I was this excited over new music! My focus on this first EP of the album was to get a mix of new and old songs, some that fans have been asking about/waiting for mixed with brand new songs that they haven’t heard before!”
The EP in question was “Avīci (01),” released in August 2017 and led by tracks like “Friend of Mine” and “Lonely Together” with Rita Ora. It marked Avicii’s first new solo music since stepping back from touring in 2016, and the plan he laid out to Pete Tong here — treat the EP as the opening chapter of a bigger album — was very real. A follow-up, “Avīci (02),” arrived in 2017 as well, continuing the rollout he described in this interview.
This remains one of the last interviews before his eventual 2018 passing. What came after speaks to just how much music he still had in the pipeline. His parents and label pieced together the two EPs plus additional unreleased material into “TIM,” a full posthumous album released in June 2019 that fulfilled the exact plan Avicii talked about with Pete Tong — the “first of many” EPs building toward a complete project. The album’s lead single, “SOS” featuring Aloe Blacc, dropped that April and became one of his most beloved late-career tracks. Combined with 2015’s “Stories,” his catalog paints a picture of an artist who never stopped chasing new sounds, from the anthemic dance-pop of “Wake Me Up” to the more introspective, song-driven material on his final releases.
Beyond the music, his family established the Tim Bergling Foundation in 2019 to support mental health awareness and suicide prevention, work that’s continued to expand his legacy well past his catalog. Interviews like this one with Pete Tong are a reminder of how forward-looking Avicii was right up until the end — already planning his next chapter, already thinking about the fans still waiting on new songs.
