Visuals have always been an important companion to Flume’s work. Vitality is the electronic version of whiplash while Daze 22.00 mixes it up with a range of different electronic styles and Flume’s classic vocal embedding seeping in. From there, the mixtape blends into itself perfectly. Flume lets loose. Kučka’s vocals are completely muddied and bruised throughout Voices, which bleeds into the epilogue, MUD. Post- Wormhole, the mixtape is on a high velocity track of pure, unadulterated experimentation. RELATED: Bcharre has more dark techno you for HERE. Thankfully, though, the track doesn’t overstay its welcome and we’re again treated to some more cacophonous industrial clangs in the form of Wormhole.
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The trend, unfortunately, continues on ‘Hi This Is Flume’ with JPEGMAFIA’s laughable appearance on How To Build A Relationship. The aforementioned Vince Staples couldn’t even save Flume’s bad streak with hip-hop artists on Lose It and Smoke & Retribution from ‘Skin’. Flume hasn’t shielded away from having hip-hop artists feature on his warped electronica, though they’ve always been a letdown. While an avid attempt, it’s the hip-hop features which let down the mixtape. The song bridges between SOPHIE’s sweetly soaring vocals to Flume and Eprom’s ghastly industrial rips. Flume pairs up with Eprom for an abrasive remix of SOPHIE’s Is It Cold In The Water? Being one of the standout tracks from SOPHIE’s debut album of last year, ‘Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides’, the new take on the track is both thrilling and a nexus of Flume’s thesis is with this mixtape-a proper gateway into his much sought after experimentation of electronic music. While tracks like Dreamtime and Jewel are fine set pieces, they only aim to justify the absolute gold that’s about to unfold through the remainder of the mixtape.
The first six tracks of ‘Hi This Is Flume’ are merely fluff before the meat of the release begins. However the brisk 38-minute runtime works in his favour-compared to the often drawn out and dawdling composition of ‘Skin’. Admittedly, we know what we’re getting with it being labelled a mixtape. Artists like former Flume collaborator, Vince Staples, as well as Pusha T and Earl Sweatshirt have all released albums that clock in around or under the 30-minute mark. RELATED: Danny Barwick takes us through a track-by-track of his incredible new EP HERE.įlume also tacks onto the growing trend of shorter, more concise album run times. The second track, Ecdysis, means to shed skin. Going the way of Four Tet with one of his many monikers, Flume’s use of odd characters in a short interlude track is far from what he’s ever done before. They were hidden in plain sight amongst the other pop-orientated tracks. There is no bright light to be found on ‘Hi This Is Flume’-the producer throws everything he has onto the release while turning his back on his pop star past.Īt some points on the mixtape, Flume makes it almost too clear that he’s trying to turn his back on the mainstream appeal. Tracks like Wall Fuck and Pika were short moments of escapism for the producer. ‘Skin’ still held some unapologetic pop moments, like the massive Say It, which featured Tove Lo. 2016’s ‘Skin’ and its two companion EPs shed more light on his more experimental side. Compared to his self-titled debut, this is a brand new Flume. This is not entirely new territory for Flume. Rather, consumed with a good pair of headphones and an open mind-something the vast majority of Flume listeners will not take lightly to.
Almost if not all the tracks on ‘Hi This Is Flume’ aren’t constructed to be danced to.
Immediately, we’re drawn away from his bright, shimmering and high-octane electronica that propelled him into the mainstream. ‘Hi This Is Flume’ is the Australian producer’s new collage of work that signals something much larger in the grand scheme of things. Not a single not a premiere on triple j with the unnerving hint of a larger body of work that may or may not be released later this year. Only being alerted to the sign of new music from Flume one day in advance, today we were bombarded by an entirely new mixtape.
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