Flume shares ‘Smoke & Retribution’ featuring Vince Staples & Kučka,
Flume & Retribution‘ featuring Vince Staples & Kučka
out now on Transgressive Records
Only weeks since sharing the first single of his upcoming LP Skin, ‘Never Be Like You feat. Kai’, Flume is back with its AA-side, which is out now on Transgressive Records.
Premiered overnight as Zane Lowe’s World Record on Beats 1, ‘Smoke & Retribution’ is unlike anything we’ve heard from the young producer (full name Harley Streten) before. Featuring guest vocals from LA-based rapper Vince Staples, who featured in his BBC Essential Mix last year, and a beguiling chorus from experimental up-and-comer Kučka, the track is a beat-heavy contrast to ‘Never Be Like You feat. Kai’, and a sure sign of the sonic diversity we can expect from the album.
LISTEN TO ’SMOKE & RETRIBUTION’
Since premiering as Annie Mac’s “Hottest Record In The World” on Radio 1 last week, ‘Never Be Like You feat. Kai’ is approaching a staggering 7 million streams globally. The track hit #1 on Spotify’s Global Viral charts, as well as in the UK, US, Canadian, Australian and NZ Viral Charts. It entered the UK iTunes Electronic chart at #4 and maintained a steady #1 on Hype Machine. It has been incredibly received on UK radio, with extensive support from Radio 1, 1Xtra and reaching A-List on Rinse FM, plus being named their Record of the Week. His recently announced headline shows in London and Paris SOLD OUT in under a week.
LISTEN TO ‘NEVER BE LIKE YOU FEAT. KAI’
PRAISE FOR ‘NEVER BE LIKE YOU FEAT. KAI’
“…smoothly balancing chilled out trap effects with spacey ambient noise and future bass elements, going hard and soft at once — a duality expressed in the lyrics as well” – Billboard
“Diplo-endorsed singer Kai provides sumptuous and sterling vocals over sparkling half-time drops, like an instrumental B-side from FutureSex LoveSounds. The new R&B look is a good one for Flume” – SPIN
“”Never Be Like You” heaves and shudders towards catharsis, oscillating between expressions of loneliness and forceful statements of independence” – The Fader
“It’s a fragile, stuttering piece of electronic wizardry, caught somewhere between after-hours and the home studio” – Pigeons And Planes
“A spacious and defining effort from one of the world’s most sought after producers” – Ministry Of Sound
Flume’s first live appearance for 2016 is tomorrow at Laneway Festival Singapore. The European tour dates are below:
16 MARCH 2016 | ROUNDHOUSE – LONDON, UK – SOLD OUT
17 MARCH 2016 | LE TRIANON – PARIS, FRANCE – SOLD OUT
19 MARCH 2016 | [PIAS] NITES – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
17 JUNE 2016 | SONAR – BARCELONA, SPAIN
18 JUNE 2016 | MAD COOL – MADRID, SPAIN
