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Feb 12, 2013He’s woven a stunning debut which is as scattershot as it is coherent, and his homeland is certainly right to be heralding him as the next big thing.
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Feb 21, 2013This album has an eccentric palette and shows off Streten’s wide-ranging tastes; if you can’t find something to enjoy here, you’re not looking hard enough.
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Feb 14, 2013This debut album scraps coherence and convention and prioritises the more vital values of music; making songs that are both accessible and rinsed in invention.
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Feb 12, 2013Streten proves that potential mass appeal need not come at the expense of creative flair or fresh ideas.
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Q MagazineFeb 12, 2013The musical collage approach, is the starting point for a captivating album of pop electronica. [Mar 2013, p.101]
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Feb 12, 2013Tender, beautifully melancholy urban electronica.
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Feb 12, 2013Flume manages to be somewhat of a timeless release in terms of modern electronic music, one that could have dropped at any point over the past 12 years or so and still made an impact of some sort.
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Feb 22, 2013Streten explores his sonic palette with varying degrees of success on Flume.
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Feb 25, 2013Laid back beats, a high pitched effect methodically layered within the effects, vocals, bring in the bridge then loop the beat. Arguably this is the pattern to all electronic music yet there is not much variety within this paradigm; luckily there are enough winning moments on Flume to make you forgive this.
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Feb 22, 2013The entire album succeeds so well in its refusal to succumb to dance music tropes or to wallow entirely in obscure new trends.
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Feb 19, 2013Flume's debut certainly fits into a post-2000s club vibe and DJ culture that borrows liberally, and often with inspired aplomb, from cut-and-paste hip-hop, avant-garde electronic composition, ambient pop, and contemporary R&B.
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Feb 19, 2013It’s a bit TEED on a beach, or SBTRKT with mask exchanged for a tasteful side-parting.
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Feb 22, 2013Streton definitely has the production chops to make a solid record. However, if he wants a great record, he needs to edit down that tracklist and sequence it for cohesion.
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Feb 14, 2013Flume’s decision to try his hand at everything, whilst demonstrating his evident enthusiasm and frequent successes, comes at the price of the album’s coherency. Nonetheless, there’s a lot of potential here.
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UncutFeb 12, 2013There's much to admire here, but Flume needs to fix his identity. [Mar 2013, p.72]
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Mar 28, 2013Although it toes a dangerous line of resounding too imitative of its own influences, the young producer is nonetheless well on his way to fully embracing his identity.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 68
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Mixed: 2 out of 68
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Negative: 1 out of 68
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Apr 13, 2017
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Jun 5, 2015
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Apr 17, 2014