![]() ![]() I could point to every track on the record and say something great about it. ![]() ![]() The beat Flume has come up with is almost completely alien, totally different from what we’re used to hearing. Smoke & Retribution is far from my favourite track on the record, but it’s hard not to talk about it because the production work is so wildly inventive. These tracks are often weaker than the others, if only because the rappers can’t hold a candle to Flume’s production.īut despite that, it’s hard not to recommend those tracks. If there’s ever a rough spot on Skin, it’s some of the rap contributors that appear throughout. It’s Streten’s ability to marry both ambience and production value that makes him such a wunderkind. If he weren’t so good at adding pop inflection to big remixes, he’d be making intellectual electronic ambience like Tycho. There’s a reason Flume is such a success. Yes, there’s lots of music like it, but there’s so little that feels so inventive in its light touches. It’s an assault, sonically, but it doesn’t feel aggressive so much as it just feels deep and bass-filled. This is an exceptionally thick track, with more layers than I could think to count, and not a single spoken word. It’s so densely produced, so wonderfully assembled, and so much better than everything else coming out of the genre right now that saying anything less feels like a disservice to the album. I say that without hyperbole, or with at least as little hyperbole as possible. Skin might be the electronic album of the year. ![]()
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