Flume opens up about his new mixtape and the pressures success in a new interview with GQ Australia.
The Grammy Award-winning producer blew up with this self-titled debut album and only continued to skyrocket with his second studio album, Skin. The project took f in ways he could have never anticipated, with its fair share growing pains.
He reveals to GQ Aus: “Everything I put out just kept growing exponentially, to the point where I freaked out about putting something out that might not grow.”
And talks radio play: “I’d just sit in this room for hours doing all these lines for radio stations, like, ‘Hi this is Flume and you’re listening to blah blah blah’ and I hated it. I was like, ‘what the fuck am I doing? What is my life now? It’s like turned into this whole other beast.’”
Sound familiar? Flume’s new mixtape plays f that time behind the mic. But that’s all behind him (at least for now) and he’s thriving in his current creative space.
“My mental space around doing a record now isn’t like freaked out or anything, I don’t feel this great pressure that I put on myself because all the success momentum that came with Skin. Yeah, I think I feel more comfortable about making another record.”
Source: GQ Australia | Photo Rukes.com