![]() She's Australian, as well and we've done something on almost every single full length release except for the first record. ![]() But I just kept playing them hoping that he'd be into something eventually and then finally, what I think was the second last idea, he was like, "yep, this one, let's do something on this." I was sweating there for a while but we worked on that there and then continued working on it at another point. I played him a bunch of ideas and he was not particularly into any of them at first. We did some music in Vegas, we both played the same festival and then afterwards, we got in the studio together. I've been a huge fan of Damon Albarn, with Blur and Gorillaz growing up, it was always one of my biggest inspirations, or he was, and I'd always wanted to work with him and I actually managed to get in touch with him. Touching on the collaborations, there’s some new faces and some old, how did those come about? There’s just all sorts of interesting kinds of angles to look at the world through, so we base the world on that and build it out from there. Maybe it's as obvious as Greenpeace or maybe one of the world's largest arms dealers. So then we created this motorbike rider, and we were like, let's do the branding with a condom brands or vasectomy brands or euthanasia companies. Because as we all know, it's kind of what's destroying Mother Nature the most. I was speaking to Jonathan for a while about this idea: What if Mother Nature somehow owned a Fortune500 company? What would Mother Nature invest in? Then we were thinking, well, it's probably things that are detrimental to human existence or preventative. We wanted to build out this world, at least the visual world, and make it really feel cohesive. Well, I mean, it's like a bunch of collaborations with other people and there's not really a strict narrative throughout the record. Revisit Flume’s 2022 DJ Mag North America cover interview here.What sort of ideas were you playing with on the album? Much like that record, ‘Arrived Anxious, Left Bored’ features music recorded by Flume across his career to date. It was the Australian artist’s second surprise release of 2023, coming off the back of February’s ‘ Things Don't Always Go The Way You Plan’. Tkay Maidza will be back in Australia next month for an appearance at Splendour In The Grass festival, before joining Lizzo for the Australian leg of her tour.įlume dropped his latest album, ‘Arrived Anxious, Left Bored’, in May through Future Classic/Transgressive Records. ‘Silent Assassin’ arrived last week alongside a music video directed by LA-based photographer and creative, Milo Lee. “I’ve always wanted to work with Flume and was immediately ecstatic when he played the instrumental for this I wanted to channel Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot.” ![]() ![]() “I like to move in silence, but this song is a reminder that people shouldn’t count me out or underestimate my abilities they should be afraid when I’m quiet as I come back more evolved,” Tkay shared on the tune. The self-empowerment-inspired anthem arrives via 4AD/Dew Process, and features Tkay rapping over Flume’s beats. ![]() The track – featuring fellow Australian Flume on production duties – is the Zimbabwe-born artist's first release since the 2022 festive single, ‘Nights in December’, and the more recent Snakehips collaboration ‘Show Me the Money’. Tkay Maidza has shared a new single, ‘ Silent Assassin’. ![]()
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