These were also followed by a compilation of 15 remixes of tracks from Skin, released April 7, 2017.
The second followed on February 17, 2017, also containing 4 songs. The first of these companion EPs was released November 25, 2016, containing 4 songs. The first single off the record, “Never Be Like You” features vocals from Kai and was Flume’s first song to reach number one in his home country Australia.įollowing the release of Skin, which garnered critical acclaim and won him multiple ARIAs and two Grammy nods (including a win for best electronic album), he announced he would release 2 ‘Companion EPs’ made of tracks that were produced around the same time as Skin. In 2012, he released his self-titled debut album, Flume, which featured collaborations with artists like How To Dress Well and Chet Faker.įlume’s described his sophomore album Skin as “headphone music,” a departure from the “festival music” that helped him make a name for himself. In 2011, Flume was discovered by Australian electronic label Future Classic, after submitting early tracks to a competition run by the label. He first started producing music at 13, and initially released house music under the alias HEDS. Those records definitely hold up, though the Stone Poneys no longer make me cry.Why don't I go back to my thing? This relationship, I'm asking For your undivided attention Trust in all that we startedĮdit bioFlume is the stage name of Australian electronic producer Harley Edward Streten. I especially listened to more music, including the vinyl collections that both parents handed down to me. During a recent social media hiatus, I felt more present, became more active and even slept better. This forty-something isn’t going to join any Luddite clubs, but even I can relate. I applaud those self-aware enough to make such healthy choices. That has to be quite the come down for people who were smothered by digital media since infancy. Wisely, many Gen Zers in particular started a trend of using so-called “dumb phones,” similar to the old Siemens I used in the early aughts, to curb the urge to scroll and its associated negative effects. We’re talking about humans who’ve always lived in an era where a palm-size computer is an extra appendage for basically everyone over the age of 16. Seems they’re searching, too, and I certainly can’t blame them considering the economic (read: Great Recession), political (read: MAGA fascism), and societal (read: wars, racism, drug addiction, and homelessness) ills plaguing the nation through much of their young lives. Nineties music and fashion-and even that abomination of a hairstyle known as the mullet-have cycled through the cultural zeitgeist repeatedly over the last decade. Interestingly, Millennials and Gen Z have embraced a lot of the things from our adolescence. If you’re a Xennial like this columnist-a younger Gen Xer, that is-you might feel quite, well, old right now. Case in point, this year marks three decades since Nirvana released In Utero. As has been noted in many a recent meme, the sixties are to the nineties what the nineties are to today-time-wise, anyway. People labeled us as disaffected and cynical, but I think we were simply young and honest.Ĭut to 2023 and it’s reality check time. Point is, we were searching for something, though I don’t think we ever found it.
I suppose it was a little odd considering how many of us were latch-key kids who largely raised ourselves. The first President Bush had already taken the country to war in the Middle East-the opening salvo to our “endless wars” in the region-and kids my age suddenly felt a connection with the past, albeit we never had to endure a military draft like our parents did with Vietnam. Don’t get me wrong, we were very much into the popular artists of the time-the Cure, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and TLC-but there was something mesmerizing about the “oldies.” It was really fun when, years later, my friends started listening to the music I’d long loved. I don’t know if it was Linda Ronstadt’s soulful voice, the introspective lyrics or the languid melody, but for some reason that song about a woman who wasn’t ready to settle down gave toddler me all the feels. There was one that always made me cry: “Different Drum” by the Stone Poneys.