![]() “I had a year-and-a-half of my twenties,” he laughs. It was just nice, just really, really sweet. “I would start to get to know the people that worked at the general store, say hi to people on the street. ![]() “I felt like I was finally living my twenties for the first time and had a feeling of a sense of community,” Streten says. On the Northern Rivers, without the constant deadlines and pressure and tour dates endlessly stretched out before him, he could breathe the clean air. He’d get back and try to reconnect with old friends, finding they’d moved on. “I didn’t realise that I’d missed out on my twenties,” he says somewhat wistfully. “I never really thought about that idea of missing out on university, like people having their twenties.”Įven something as simple as having a circle of friends was difficult to manage when he’d be on tour for six months at a time. For the first time in his adult life, his days were taken up with simple things: growing vegetables, surfing, going to get coffee with his dad, walking, being in nature. Streten bought a property on the Northern Rivers, just down the road from his friend and longtime artistic collaborator Jonathan Zawada. He picked up a Grammy for second album Skin, found himself splashed across tabloid pages after he stuck his face in his girlfriend’s ass at Burning Man, collaborated with some of the biggest artists on the planet, and became a bona fide sex symbol.īut in coming home, Flume realised there was something crucial he hadn’t done for a long, long time: lived like a normal human being. So I was like, what the fuck am I doing here? I could be like, living in paradise in Australia.”įor 10 years, since the release of his self-titled debut album - which went double-platinum in Australia and picked up a number of pointy trophies at the ARIAs - Flume had never stopped, scaling the charts in the US and becoming a fixture at the top of festival posters worldwide. I wanted to like come back and hang out with my parents and live a simpler existence, all the things I was over there for weren’t happening. I’d been over there for a bunch of years and like barely seen them. “I was like ‘I wanna see my dad’, what if my dad got COVID and died? Like, I don’t know. He was struggling to write new music, and so Flume - real name Harley Streten - decided it was time to get the hell out of there. “I was like, ‘what the fuck am I doing here?” Streten says, sitting in a booth at the Old Clare Hotel in Chippendale on a cool and sunny Monday. He’d broken up with his girlfriend, and the spectre of the pandemic was just starting to bear down on the city - ripples of panic spreading throughout the city. In early 2020, Flume had had enough of Los Angeles. Had been wanting to make something with Hannah for a long time and this one just came together really naturally in the studio that day," Flume said in a statement.Want more Junkee in your life? Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook so you always know where to find us. I was on a writing trip to London, was actually the same trip where I first met slowthai. "Hannah and I wrote Let You Know last summer. The song also enters a cosmic realm with the help of its accompanying music video - directed by Jonathan Zawada - thereby almost plunging into a dystopian era.Īnd as Flume explains, the song came along naturally. ![]() With lyrics that go, "You won’t see what everyone can // Did I make you feel like less of a man // I heard you drive past my house again // Over again, over again," the track narrates the feelings of denial and indecisiveness that one goes through when a relationship comes to an end. Let Me Know immediately lures the listener in with groovy and catchy beats, complemented by Hannah Reid's euphonious vocals. Often considered as the innovator in electronic music, Flume, once again, does not disappoint. The single follows the Australian artiste's vivid mixtape Hi This Is Flume, and also serves as the first piece of new music from London Grammar since 2017. As the clock struck midnight, Grammy Award winner Flume (aka Harley Streten) surprised fans with a new single, titled Let You Know, which also features English indie pop group London Grammar.
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