I think it can sometimes be confusing for the listener to figure out what is the difference between them. It's like when you're with someone and you're exclusive but you don't have the boyfriend/girlfriend label and like album is boyfriend/girlfriend and exclusive is mixtape. There was no good reason, except for the fact that there was one remix on there. And it had lots of collaborations with other producers and I don't know. And because it had a remix on there we were just like, let's just call it a mixtape. It's just it had a remix that I'd done on there. It's exciting.Ĭan you tell me: what do you feel is the difference between a mixtape and an album? It kind of feels like my fourth album for me because I did like this mixtape, which I know wasn't an album. But yeah, it's been a while but it's exciting to have a new record coming out. I think he'd be like, damn, that's pretty good. What would baby Flume think? I think baby Flume would think Palaces is pretty cool. Do you think about what baby Flume would think about this body of work that you've put together? Would baby Flume have ever thought you were capable of creating such a project as Palaces? We were talking about - oh god, what else was it.See I can't even remember because I'm so old. I was actually just in the car talking about MySpace. We're here with Palaces - 10 years on from your self-titled debut. 'I genuinely can't wait to get back out there.' Flume announces 2022 Australian Tour with guest collaborators TRANSCRIPT:īridget Hustwaite: Flume, hi! Congratulations on album number three. 'I'm off it and I feel like I'm on it, almost. It enabled me to take control of that element of my life.' It enabled me to do my job and go up on stage and feel less strung out and just like a ball of anxiety.

I said I'd do it for a month and see what happened. 'I was pretty against it at first, but I thought I'd just give it a go. I got to the point where I didn't want to tour anymore at all.'įlume ended up going to see a therapist who suggested he try antidepressants. I got into bad habits and realised I was drinking all the time and I'd get home and just feel terrible.' 'I was just anxious all the time, so I would drink because I was nervous about going on stage and then being on stage and then afterwards, you know, have a few more drinks. So I was inspired by that and I thought I could play saxophone but have it not necessarily sound like a traditional saxophone and manipulate it and just have fun.' His relationship with touring has completely changed. And he's got a really interesting way of playing it that doesn't sound traditional. He plays saxophone and has got a saxophone on every record. 'I've been listening to this guy, Alabaster dePlume. I'm gonna give it a crack and I'm gonna gonna sing.'Īnd as for the sax: 'It's the one instrument I can actually play.' 'I'm not a great singer but I can make myself sound fucking amazing.

I want to try and push myself.' He plans on having a crack at singing and laying down some sax.įor the next record he says: 'maybe I'll sing a bunch and maybe get the saxophone out.' These are new things that scare me and that's good. It got me excited because I feel like I've just been fucking producing for so long. 'That showed me something that I've always known but I've never really spoken to someone about. And she's was like, 'oh it's about nothing, those words just sounded good and it's a vibe.'' I asked what the fuck that song is about because it makes no sense to me. What scares him about lyrics? 'I don't know.

I was speaking to Caroline about it and telling her how I was kind of interested in singing, but I was a little terrified of lyrics.' It's something that I really want to do a lot of. 'With the lyrics it's something that I've never been particularly confident at. 'After doing this, I'm actually so excited about the concept record that I want to do next time.' Caroline Polachek helped Flume overcome his fear of lyrics. And now, moving forward, that's the way I'm always wanting to do things. It also gives us loads of amazing content for the shows and makes everything look great. 'I think it's really fun to create a world and when you've got a narrative, it makes it easier to build that world out. 'It was just quite fun to look at the world through Mother Nature's lens, if she was competing.'

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