I thought, this is how the album’s going to sound. “I hadn’t heard anything quite like that. “I thought, cool this sounds like it’s from the future’” says Flume. Then, stuck on what would become the clattering standout, ‘Numb and Getting Colder’, he crushed together three completely different songs.
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Strange but organic, like it has a soul.”Īfter slowly beginning work on Skin as far back as late 2013, Streten’s breakthrough came in mid-2015 when he shifted to LA for three months of solid work. Skin itself is alien and weird but also really intimate and that’s how I want this music to come across, and to explore the line in between. Skin was designed to trigger these things. “Potent contrasting emotions - vulnerability and strength, uncomfortable and euphoric. “I wanted jarring things that make me feel,” he says. “Skin is a record you couldn’t put on at a dinner party,” says Streten. For Skin, Streten wanted to rudely interrupt this pulse.
His forward-thinking debut had maintained a consistent rhythm and heartbeat, part of the reason it was so quickly embraced - to fans it was a world unto itself. I’m a perfectionist and it all drove me a bit crazy.” “I’d think I had it all figured out and then discover I didn’t. “I didn’t feel like I was in my own skin throughout the writing process,” says Streten. The initial problem with this vision was it proved maddeningly difficult to articulate. I know it won’t be for everyone but it’s what I had to do. Recorded in hotel rooms, aeroplanes, trains, taxis, and tour vans, and in locations as far-flung as LAX airport, a shack on the west coast of Mexico, a log cabin in rural Tasmania, a bus rattling towards Vegas, as well as studios in LA, New York, and his hometown of Sydney, Skin is “a grand expedition in trying to capture the biggest, most epic, powerful moments,” says Streten. That definitely influenced the new stuff a lot.” So I did want to keep the next album at a certain high energy. “If I wrote chilled stuff, which I really like, I’d find it difficult to play it at a festival. “I do think about them and I don’t want to isolate them,” says Streten of the writing process. A sizeable one at that - beyond millions of listeners and his own sold-out shows, Flume has become a major draw at international festivals, including Reading, Leeds, Pukkelpop, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and a headliner slot at Rock En Seine in Paris to 40,000 fans. “It used to be just writing for myself but now there is an audience,” says Streten.
With good reason - its creation mirrors the complex rush of sensations that came with Streten’s success. The 24-year old Australian producer’s wildly eclectic follow-up is a meticulously crafted, vivid universe of big emotions woven into a densely cinematic whole. “Shock” plays a significant role on Flume’s often-outrageous second album, Skin. “I was just some quiet kid in high-school and all of a sudden I kind of got dropped into the deep end. “It was a crazy journey,” says Flume - aka Harley Streten - of his 2012 self-titled debut’s international success.
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