Review: With posthumous release, Avicii goes out on top

Avicii, “TIM” The first words from the first single of Avicii’s latest album are a gut-punch: “Can you hear me? Avicii adds ominous strings with Imagine Dragons to create the near-operatic “Heart Upon My Sleeve.” His collaboration with Martin on “Heaven” may remind you of the Coldplay man’s work on the smash hit “Something Like This” with The Chainsmokers. “TIM” is the culmination of Avicii’s song-based flair that incorporates elements outside EDM. “All the breath in your lungs/Is stronger than the tears in your eyes,” the lyrics go on “Hold the Line.” And despite fighting with a lover in “Tough Love,” it concludes: “There’s no place I’d rather be than in your arms.” Even “SOS” — which reunites Avicii with Aloe Blacc, who sang on Avicii’s biggest hit, 2013’s “Wake Me Up” — has hope: “I can feel your love pulling me up from the underground.” There is the power of love all over “TIM.” Let that be his legacy.