Angello released his own solo records and Axwell and Ingrosso put out an album in 2017 together. But if you let some time pass, all of a sudden, those things that, those things that tore us apart were kind of destroyed.”ĭuring the breakup, they all kept working and performing. “So like when you’re running 100 miles an hour, like you don’t have time to reflect. “Enough time went by for me to feel like I was missing something, right?” said Angello. The opportunity to push boundaries again was the motivating factor to come back together and put aside differences that led to their split, said Angello, who remained coy on the exact reasons. The new songs are leading up to their full-length album “Paradise Again,” slated for release next year. They released two other singles this year, including “Lifetime” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and 070 Shake and “It Gets Better,” both of which reached the Top 15 of Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. “We were like, ‘Well, did you have this written down or how was it like? Did you prepare notes?’ (He said,) ‘I just looked at some text messages on my phone.’” “He just, boom, went for it and it sounded amazing,” said Axwell.
After meeting in Los Angeles, they found a track they all loved and the Toronto-born superstar let inspiration lead him, said Axwell. They also now share the same management team with The Weeknd, who has hinted at the collab on his social media. “We made more songs in the past two years than we did in the 20 years before that, which is incredible,” said Angello. Known for being perfectionists and their slow pace of recording, the pandemic gave them the time they needed as they worked in their studio in Sweden. The anticipation has been building since the three announced their reunion at a surprise set at Ultra Music Festival in Miami in 2018, but behind the scenes it was a years-long process of getting a new label, new management and new music. With hits like “Don’t You Worry Child” and “Save The World,” they were the first DJ act to sell out Madison Square Garden and got top billing at Coachella, where they will return in 2022. “I think time was the best thing that could happen to us,” Angello told The Associated Press in an interview from Stockholm. Since “It Gets Better,” the group has released singles “ Lifetime” with Ty Dolla $ign, “One Symphony,” and a collaboration with the Weeknd titled “ Moth to a Flame.” They’re set to perform at Coachella later this year.It's a long awaited return for the DJs - Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso - who announced their breakup in 2012 after reaching heights that few other DJs had and leading a wave of interest in EDM music with their grandiose live shows. “It was tough - we’re getting older, obviously, and the whole EDM bubble for me has come to a point where nobody is taking risks, to be honest, including me,” Ingrosso told Billboard about their decision to take a hiatus. The trio marked their return last summer when they released “It Gets Better,” their first song in eight years. Let’s just risk it, be punk, and do whatever we feel because it’s genuine.’” “It took me a long time to become young - to reach the 16-year-old guy in me that was nervous on a Friday night going to a rave in the woods - but I think that it’s going to live longer if we just risk everything we’ve done, say, ‘Fuck the old hits. “We aren’t Rolling Stones old, but we’re not really the youngest guys out there, and it’s fucking hard to reinvent yourself,” Ingrosso told the outlet.
The group spoke to Spin about the prospect of returning as a trio after a lengthy hiatus, and what it took for them to get back.