Flume - Hi This Is Flume

8.7

After two years of silence, the Australian producer returns with a mixtape that's his most realized and authentic release to date. Fully inhabiting experimental wonky fields, Flume excells at disjointed story-telling and marvellous bassness with focus, charisma and angst.

Highlights

- The tracks that contain vocals make the singers/rappers shine amazingly.

- All moments feel urgent and desperately hyperkinetic in form and shape.

- There's cohesion and diversity throughout, and a sense of constant self-discovery.

Lowlights

- Some experiments are fantastically executed, but fall too short in comparison to others.

Standouts

- High Beams

- How To Build A Relationship

- Voices

Country: Australia

Released: 20 March, 2019

Length: 38:20

Croatian Amor - Isa

6.4

The fifth solo release from the Danish sonic screwdriver not only lacks pace (no matter how abstract that term could get) but also identity, being the vocal guests the ones who bring the only pinches of brain, heart and movement onto the post-industrial sculptures.

Highlights

- Artist Soho Rezanejad might play the most interesting and pulsating role in the record, adding gut and vibrance to the tracks where she's guested.

- The concepts of pop structures are curiously compacted and warped throughout the running time.

Lowlights

- The voiceless tracks lack substance and depth in both meaning and execution.

- There's not a clear reason d'être to the disk and, for that, the experience might get a bit heavy to lift up at times.

Standouts

- In Alarm Light

- Eden 1.1

- Into Salt

Country: Denmark

Released: January 25, 2019

Length: 34:48