The most introspective track on Skin, Streten he wanted to sound like 'the fabric of the universe tearing.' Barring standouts like 'Never Be Like You' featuring Kai - which succeeds as the album's most radio-friendly song - Skin is altogether weirder than Streten's self-titled debut album, which was released in the wake of his career-launching 'Sleepless' in 2012 to widespread critical acclaim.Streten tells Mashable that the pressure to live up to Flume weighed heavily on him recording Skin, and motivated him to find sounds that challenged him. He mentioned multiple times in this documentary how he needs to travel and experience in order to be inspired to write.įlume has one goal: 'I wanna make weird stuff.' The start of 'Numb & Getting Colder' seems to be caught that staticky place in between two radio stations - here, between R&B and dance - before Kučka's voice appears, manipulated to an almost alien-like octave.The voiceless 'Wall Fuck,' meanwhile, is not an easy listen, but an agitated one, beginning with menacing drums and growing more and more anxious throughout. It’s been about three years now since we have received any new music from and we are all patiently waiting.
Not to mention the stage set up for this tour, he partnered with artist Jonathan Zawada to produce visuals that tie together so perfectly with his sounds.All of Flume’s hard work put into Skin pays off for him with it going gold in the United States and platinum in Australia, as well as winning a Grammy for the best Dance/Electronic Album. Flume performing Skin is some of the rawest and emotion-filled DJing we have ever seen.
We get a first-hand look of him working in the studio playing with sounds, he said that “everyone has the same gear, it’s all about using the gear in the way it’s not supposed to be.” That’s how has perfected a sound totally unique to him.Coming from first-hand experience seeing him live before and after Skin the transformation is incredible. He expressed his nerves saying that he felt this album had to be great because he had music out and people had expectations for the next album to be just as good.