Zedd - True Colors 24Bit 96KHz FLAC ANDYT1000 KAT

Zedd's second LP is stuffed with sugar-rush beats that are fun, even when they blur together
True Colors

With Zedd behind the boards, even Tom Waits could make a feel-good summer hit: Everything the 25-year-old German producer handles, from his own 2013 smash "Clarity" to Ariana Grande's "Break Free" last year, turns to candy-rave gold. True Colors, Zedd's second LP, includes songs about love, breakups and seizing the day, but the real subject is always his enormous beats. Opener "Addicted to a Memory" drifts toward industrial noise, then introduces nuclear-meltdown sirens and prog keyboards. "Straight Into the Fire," a highlight, fakes you out with synth arpeggios before bursting into an ecstatic, confetti-covered hook.

That Midas touch comes with a price. Though he cycles through a major-label budget's worth of sounds and vocalists (including Selena Gomez and earnest rapper Logic), Zedd's colors are often hard to tell apart. Eight songs in, he overcompensates with "Papercut," a seven-and-a-half-minute piano intermission that's too much ballad and not enough power. It's eventually succeeded by the jolting "Bumble Bee," which races forward like a reckless bender after a bad breakup. The song's energy suggests that the Cyndi Lauper nod in the album's title might not be a coincidence. Zedd just wants to have fun.​


01. Addicted To A Memory (5:03) • 02. I Want You To Know (4:00)
03. Beautiful Now (3:38) • 04. Transmission (4:02)
05. Done With Love (4:56) • 06. True Colors (3:48)
07. Straight Into The Fire (3:42) • 08. Papercut (7:23)
09. Bumble Bee (4:08) • 10. Daisy (2:54)
11. Illusion (6:31)



foobar2000 1.2.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-05-21 19:27:21
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Analyzed: Zedd / True Colors
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR3 0.00 dB -6.72 dB 5:03 ?-Addicted To A Memory
DR4 0.00 dB -6.16 dB 4:00 ?-I Want You To Know
DR3 0.00 dB -6.03 dB 3:38 ?-Beautiful Now
DR4 0.00 dB -6.06 dB 4:02 ?-Transmission
DR4 0.00 dB -7.79 dB 4:56 ?-Done With Love
DR5 0.00 dB -7.41 dB 3:48 ?-True Colors
DR4 0.00 dB -7.31 dB 3:42 ?-Straight Into The Fire
DR4 0.00 dB -6.46 dB 7:23 ?-Papercut
DR4 0.00 dB -6.22 dB 4:08 ?-Bumble Bee
DR5 0.00 dB -7.72 dB 2:54 ?-Daisy
DR6 0.00 dB -7.81 dB 6:31 ?-Illusion
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR4
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2889 kbps