Released 8 Years Ago: Otto Knows & Avicii – Back Where I Belong

In 2016 Avicii made the decision to step away from touring to help look after his mental health and would take some time to go back home to Sweden. Collaborating with his childhood friend Otto Knows, ‘Back Where I Belong’ tells the story of them going and living their dream and now finally coming back home where they’re happy.

Otto Jettman (Otto Knows) and Tim Bergling (Avicii) both grew up in Stockholm Sweden where they went to school together and would discover they shared a love for music and a desire to make their own music to share with the world. In 2010 they would both start to get their breakthroughs releasing various successful tracks including their collab ‘iTrack’ that would be a precursor for the success to come. Over the next couple of years both Otto Knows and Avicii would release some of their biggest tracks to date with Otto Knows’ ‘Million Voices’ and Avicii’s ‘Levels’ that have both achieved icon status.

Come 2016 they both had achieved great feats in the music world and 6 years on from their last collaboration, they would release ‘Back Where I Belong’ together. The track has a genuine feeling of joy about it that makes you feel the relief of both Tim and Otto to be back home where they could take a break from relentlessly touring the world. They effortlessly blend their styles together and manage to make a trumpet as the lead instrument feel at home within a house track.

This song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of the artists at the time and is a wonderful collaboration between two people who grew up with the same dream and achieved it in emphatic style. ‘Back Where I Belong’ is a song that brought joy to both the artists making it and us fans who have got to hear it for the last eight years which will forever be the greatest gift that music can give.