“Tap the artwork to listen and save to your own music collection,” Streten says with satirical faux-buoyancy. (Streten’s previous full-length was titled Skin, geddit?) Underscoring this message is Hi This Is Flume’s opening title track, a spoken-word novelty which parodies streaming platform commercials. One song, the bright, chime-strewn “ Ecdysis,” is even named after the process of a snake shedding its epidermis. The mixtape’s title has a pointed sense of re-introduction, like the pop superstar who indicates, with a self-titled album years into an established career, that she is pushing the reset button. Hi This Is Flume is set up to self-consciously dismantle the view of Streten as making music optimized for the algorithm. His mega-popular pillowy bangers are engineered for broad appeal, often possessing the “soft, emo-y, cutesy” simplicity that one streaming-first producer, speaking anonymously to Liz Pelly in The Baffler, recognized as playlisting catnip. It didn’t sound like anything anyone had ever heard before, and for that, we gotta give eternal props.Despite his work with inventive artists like Vince Staples and Lorde ( and a Grammy to his name), Harley Streten’s music as Flume has often felt like bait for audiences who have moved on from the soft-focus EDM of the influential YouTube channel Majestic Casual but still prefer to keep their listening lite. It came at a time when both Lorde and Flume found themselves suddenly thrust upon the world’s stage. It’s haunting, beautiful, soulful, scary, dark, and hopeful. We got you! This Lorde cover is just too good. Ha! You thought “Never Be Like You” was going to be No. If you don’t like it, you’re broken inside. Still, this is a Flume song that simply can’t be argued with. It’s the biggest sing-along in Flume’s current tour, but it’s not the ultimate climax, which is also a sign of how awesome Flume is. It’s four-times platinum in Australia, his first platinum song in the United States, with charting positions in 17 countries around the world. This is the biggest moment in Flume’s career to date. If anyone says they’ve had enough of it, they’re lying. This is one of the most relatable moments on Skin. He called her up, and a few days later, the new buds had this anthem to show for it. This is the song that plays when you’re running in the rain toward your soul mate, you know?Ĭool story: Flume was inspired to work with Tove Lo after he heard her hit “Habits” in a Los Angeles bar moments after getting out of a Kanye West show. You’ve got to chase it, and these dramatic strings are perfect for the occasion. Listening to this song feels like love waits just around the corner. Disclosure already had a massive joint on its hands. You know your remix is tight when it gets its own music video. Chet now goes by his birth name Nick Murphy, for your future reference, though he sounds just as sultry sexy cool, and this collab is definitely one of both artists’ bests. Major super jam alert! This gem is track one of three on the Lockjaw EP collaborative project between Future Classics friends Flume and Chet Faker. Also, that little squeal in the middle there kind of sounds like a guinea pig. This is a hold you cell phone light to the sky moment. This is a put your hand on your heart and sway kind of sing-along. It was only a promo single, not even given it’s own official single release, but it’s certainly one of the artist’s most magical. It went double-platinum in his home country, and still strikes a deep chord in the hearts of fans whenever its stark and solemn intro rings through the air. It grabbed a lot of ears and saw the young producer nominated for the Australian Recording Industry’s Song of the Year. This seminal track comes from Flume’s debut self-titled LP, released in November 2012. The beat underneath somehow remains the star amid all that powerful identity. Flume wisely paired the California rapper’s rough and instantly recognizable rap with the charming softness of fellow Aussie Ku?ka. Vince Staples does not mess with a beat unless it’s dark, different, and damn cool.
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