In between his 2012 debut album Clarity and this sophomore release, dance music producer Anton Zaslavski, aka Zedd, went from a mere EDM superstar to tabloid fodder thanks to a brief relationship with Selena Gomez.
Sounding not at all shaken by it, his 2015 album True Colors is further proof that he's the most level-headed DJ ever to headline a festival.
This crafted and cool LP repeats most of what was good with his debut, plus it is confident enough to have exes over, as Gomez appears on the highlight and single "I Want You to Know" belting out romantic words co-written by Ryan Tedder ("I want you to know, that I'm all yours/You and me run the same course").
"Done with Love" featuring Jacob Luttrell is the obvious post-relationship number included here, with the bass-drops being heavier than the heartache, but the wistful and subtle "Papercuts" with Troye Sivan is an even better choice, as Zedd surrounds this ode to disappointment with swirling melodies and shuffling house beats.
Tracks come and go like on a pop album, with only a handful of numbers passing the five-minute mark, and yet, the production is in line with the EDM aesthetic, as the stuttering, the stopping, and the twisting comes from club culture and not mainstream radio.
Odd that "Beautiful Now" goes from horny ("I see what you're wearing/There's nothing beneath it") to Maroon 5-esque (the cloying "ba, ba, ba-ba, bah!" chorus), but otherwise the slick and skillful True Colors is built for fans of Zedd's music rather than his social media followers.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
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| 1 | True ColorsAntonina Armato, Tim James, Anton Zaslavski | Zedd | Play | 03:45 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antonina Armato | Composer |
| 2 | Axident | Composer |
| 3 | Bahari | Featured Artist, Vocals |
| 4 | Jon Bellion | Composer, Featured Artist, Vocals |
| 5 | Botnek | Primary Artist, Producer |
| 6 | Ron Cabiltes | Sample Clearance |
| 7 | Desmond Child | Composer |
| 8 | Chromeo | Talk Box, Vocals |
| 9 | Adam Comstock | Vocal Engineer |
| 10 | Jeffery David | Vocal Producer |
| 11 | K. Drew | Additional Production |
| 12 | Kevin Nicholas Drew | Composer |
| 13 | Echosmith | Featured Artist |
| 14 | Rob Ellmore | Vocal Engineer |
| 15 | Jason Evigan | Composer |
| 16 | Ron Fair | Conductor, String Arrangements |
| 17 | Austin Paul Flores | Composer |
| 18 | David Gamson | Composer |
| 19 | Selena Gomez | Featured Artist, Vocals |
| 20 | Sir Robert Bryson Hall II | Composer |
| 21 | Steve Hammons | Vocal Engineer |
| 22 | Sam Nelson Harris | Composer, Vocals |
| 23 | Leah Haywood | Vocals (Background) |
| 24 | Gordon Huntley | Composer |
| 25 | Alexander Izquierdo | Composer |
| 26 | Tim James | Composer, Vocals |
| 27 | David Jost | Composer |
| 28 | Matthew Koma | Composer |
| 29 | Georgia Ku | Composer |
| 30 | Logic | Featured Artist |
| 31 | Logic | Featured Artist |
| 32 | Jacob Luttrell | Composer, Vocals, Vocals (Background) |
| 33 | Mike Marsh | Mastering |
| 34 | Sam Martin | Composer |
| 35 | Julia Michaels | Composer, Vocals, Vocals (Background) |
| 36 | Erick Muise | Composer |
| 37 | Ryan Murgotroyd | Assistant Engineer |
| 38 | Mark Nilan | Composer |
| 39 | Danny Parker | Composer |
| 40 | Garret Reynolds | Assistant Engineer |
| 41 | Lindy Robbins | Composer |
| 42 | Rock Mafia | Producer, Vocal Producer |
| 43 | Andreas Schüller | Composer |
| 44 | Ryan Shanahan | Engineer, Vocal Mixing |
| 45 | Sydney Sierota | Vocals |
| 46 | Troye Sivan | Featured Artist, Vocals (Background) |
| 47 | Jesse Taub | Engineer |
| 48 | Ryan Tedder | Composer |
| 49 | Daniel Thigpenn | Vocal Engineer |
| 50 | Roger Troutman | Composer |
| 51 | Frank Wolf | String Engineer |
| 52 | X Ambassadors | Featured Artist |
| 53 | Anton Zaslavski | Composer |
| 54 | Arkadi Zaslavski | Guitar |
| 55 | Zedd | Executive Producer, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer, Strings, Vocal Mixing, Vocal Producer, Vocals (Background) |
| 56 | Danny Zook | Sample Clearance |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |