Flume hi this is flume2/28/2024 ![]() He was newly single, after spending much of his adult life in relationships. Burnt out on cities and keen to remove himself from the temptations of alcohol and drugs, he decided to start again in northern NSW instead of returning to his home town of Sydney. Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for CoachellaĪfter a four-year stint in Los Angeles, Streten returned to Australia at the start of the pandemic to be closer to his family. ‘I’ve never really been a performer but I had to do it’ … Streten performing at Coachella in April 2022. I just didn’t know what I’d missed out on until I did have this time.” I didn’t really get to live my 20s, and I never thought about it like that before. “But after being here for a year, I started to have friends and a community, and I realised, oh, that’s what that void was. “I felt like there was something missing in life,” the now 30-year-old tells Guardian Australia over lunch at a pub near his house, Percy curled at his feet. He was widely hailed as a preternatural talent who pioneered a lush, layered electronic sound that has been often imitated, but never bettered. His second album, Skin, won him a Grammy in 2017, going to No 1 on the Australian charts and No 8 in the US. ![]() He was just 21 when he swept the Aria Awards with his 2013 self-titled debut, arriving on the red carpet in a stiff suit that made him look more like a kid at his year 12 formal than a multi-platinum musician. ![]() Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardianīefore he bought this sprawling, secluded property in early 2020, Streten had been on the go for almost a decade straight. ‘I felt like there was something missing in life’ … Streten at home. ![]()
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