The releases of NFTs showcasing ‘album-related visuals’ and preview video on New Year’s Day, 2022 confirmed a new album release for 2022. star Caroline Polachek, British polymath-icon Damon Albarn, Spain’s Virgen Maria, France’s Oklou, and fellow Australian KUČKA, who returns following her standout turn on Skin. The album features a host of vocalists and collaborators, its cast list spanning new and household names from around the world-breakout U.S. As Flume continued to forge a strong connection to his surroundings, the album he wanted to make started to form, eventually adopting a title to properly highlight the luxury and magic of the natural world. He and his neighbour and long-time collaborator, the visual artist Jonathan Zawada, became fascinated by the local wildlife, in particular the birds, collecting field recordings that ultimately worked their way in to the album. Settling in a coastal town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Flume quickly found the inspiration he needed through reconnecting with the nature around him-the rolling hills, walking around barefoot, the green colour the sky turns before a big storm, growing and eating his own vegetables, the smell of rain. The LP began to take shape when Flume returned to his native Australia after struggling to write music in Los Angeles at the beginning of the pandemic. Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.Palaces is Australian producer Flume’s long-awaited third album, and his first full-length release since 2019’s Hi This Is Flume mixtape.
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"To me, skin just feel and looks kind of weird, but it's also really intimate and personal," he said. "I want the music to come off a little alien and a little uncomfortable and strange, but at the same time really personal." That meeting of the strange and familiar, the ugly and be beautiful is what made him choose the title Skin, he says. That's an area that I like to explore a lot." "I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. "It's quite fun to mess with the human voice, it's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with, it doesn't sound too alien," he said. But Skin never feels overpowered by them, even if that does mean that they aren't always used to the best of their abilities - Vic Mensa on "Lose It" and AlunaGeorge on "Innocence," for example.Īnd then there are moments, like on "Numb & Getting Colder" where the vocals sound completely foreign, which was sort of Streten's goal using vocal manipulatin. The album juggles a group of vocalists from a wide range of genres - Raekwon, Tove Lo, Beck, Vince Staples, Vic Mensa, and AlunaGeorge all appear, among others.
"In the right context you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home."Įven its most beautiful, most appetizing songs have a certain discordance to them, like the shimmering instrumental "Pika" and "3," one of the few tracks that Streten sings on. "Every kid has a laptop, everyone can make music, so in order to stand out I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity, and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical," he said.
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