Stories

Recording information: Erlington Ave Studios, Manchester; Frenchman Street Studios, New Orleans; Henson Recording Studios, Los Angeles; Kinglet Studios, Stockholm; Nokay Studios, Stockholm; PRMD Studios, Stockholm; Silver Scream, New York City; Southern Ground, Nashville; Temple Base, Los Angeles; Woodshed Studio, Malibu.Swedish DJ Avicii is a strange case. In 2011, he broke through with "Levels," a bleepy and bright bit of EDM that could have been his signature hit, but then his 2013 album, True, was a country-pop and folk-inspired affair that thrilled his fans with its inventiveness, but left others as cold as a meandering Mumford & Sons remix effort. Two years later, his LP Stories is another genre-busting affair that fits in better with mainstream radio than it does the club, but everything iffy about True has been perfected here, as the producer revisits the song-oriented album and lets the outside genres freely come and go. Country-pop is back in EDM remix form when "Broken A