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Say it flume album6/21/2023 "Flume Announces First New Album Since 2016, 'Palaces' ". "Flume introduces new LP, 'Palaces' with lead single, 'Say Nothing' featuring MAY-A and full tracklist". "Flume on "nervous" stint working with Damon Albarn and how SOPHIE helped him make new album". "Flume Announces New Album 'Palaces', Shares MAY-A Collab". ^ "Here's all the J Awards 2022 nominees!"."Rüfüs Du Sol Leads 2022 ARIA Awards Nominees (Full List)". "Flume Announces New Album Palaces, Shares Video for New Song Featuring May-A: Watch". ^ "Flume Releases Two New Album Singles "Escape" & "Palaces" ".Archived from the original on 30 March 2022. "Flume and Caroline Polachek share new song "Sirens": Listen". ^ Ruiz, Matthew Ismael (30 March 2022).Track listing Īll tracks produced by Flume, except where noted. "Hollow" featuring Australian singer Emma Louise was released on as the fourth single.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĪt Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 72, based on 6 reviews. "Escape", co-produced by Quiet Bison and featuring Australian singer Kučka, and "Palaces" featuring British singer Damon Albarn, were released as a double single on 24 April 2022. "Sirens" featuring American singer Caroline Polachek, was released as the second single on 30 March 2022. Flume said the track is about "feelings of post relationship clarity" and was written "midway through 2020 while the pandemic was still pretty new", although it was finished in early 2021. The video contains similar visuals to those Flume uploaded on his NFT website throughout 2021. Release and promotion įlume announced the album and its track listing on 2 February 2022, also releasing the song " Say Nothing" featuring May-a as the album's lead single and its music video the same day. According to Flume, the album was also influenced by late Scottish producer Sophie. He also made field recordings of birds, which are used throughout the album. Background and recording Īfter returning to Australia following the end of his world tour in support of Skin (2016) and Hi This Is Flume (2019), Flume moved to a coastal town in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, where he says he found "inspiration from the flora and fauna surrounding him". The album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year at the 2022 J Awards. Īt the 2022 ARIA Music Awards, the album earned Flume a nomination for ARIA Award for Best Solo Artist and album was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Release, Best Cover Art, Best Produced Album and Best Mixed Album. The album was announced alongside the release of lead single " Say Nothing", featuring May-a. It includes collaborations with Oklou, May-a, Quiet Bison, Kučka, Laurel, Virgen María, Emma Louise, Caroline Polachek and Damon Albarn. While it could have benefitted from some editing, Skin still shows a lot of growth - it's more mature, and more memorable, than Flume.Palaces is the third studio album by Australian electronic musician Flume, released on through Future Classic. Though instrumentals like the darkly percussive "Wall Fuck" and the fizzy, pixelated "Pika" showcase Streten's range as a producer, the vocal tracks are so compelling that his solo turns sometimes feel like afterthoughts that bloat the album. Skin's hip-hop leanings also feel more organic than they did previously, whether on the meeting of veteran and new talent that is the Allan Kingdom and Raekwon collab "You Know," or Vince Staples' cameo on "Smoke & Retribution," which also features up-and-coming Aussie producer/singer Kučka, who also features on the more abstract "Numb & Getting Colder." The album's brightest highlights bring out the best in Streten and his guests: MNDR takes a convincing turn as a pop diva on "Like Water and even though he's Auto-Tuned, Beck has rarely sounded as uninhibited as he does on "Tiny Cities." Meanwhile, Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano elevates "Take a Chance" into one of Flume's finest moments yet, her soulful tones a perfect match for its powerful builds and drops. A cadre of well-chosen, equally genre-hopping collaborators helps him do this with surprisingly artful results: Kai's graceful vocals on "Never Be Like You" equal Streten's beats without distracting from them, while Tove Lo brings some of her sexy edge to "Say It" (and both songs underscore that dance/pop hybrids don't have to sink to both genres' lowest common denominators). With Skin, he sets himself apart from the former and exceeds the latter, uncovering more sides and bringing more focus to his fusion of dance, pop, hip-hop, and R&B. The four years between Flume's stylish self-titled debut and its follow-up were long enough that Harley Streten racked up imitators almost as quickly as expectations for what he'd do next.
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