Flume And Lorde Team Up For The Elegant New Single, ‘The Louvre’, Listen Here
New music Friday is just the best isn’t it? Today we have a serious treat for you. Along with new Calvin and Armin we are also happy to say that we have new Flume. Now on first glance one might say…’wait a second this is no Flume, this is JUST LORDE‘. Which we would answer that you need to look at the details folks.
Flume and Lorde Reunite
Lorde’s sophomore album dropped today. Melodrama is the massive follow up to the artists international, chart topping LP, Pure Heroine. While the album is as beautiful as one would expect, a little secret lies in the by-line of the single ‘The Louvre’. Harley Streten is in fact a producer on the track! Harley Streten = Flume, in case you were unaware.
The track is mid tempo and chilled out, but simply decadent in vibes. Listeners expecting a ‘Tennis Courts’ remix type of tune might be disappointed. You have to remember that this is Lorde’s single and Flume just produced, but if we had to guess some gorgeous remixes will be coming in no time. Check it out below!
A Reunion Years In The Making
Flume and Lorde’s chemistry on ‘The Louvre’ wasn’t exactly a surprise if you’d been tracking either of their careers. Flume had already worked with Lorde before, co-producing on her debut ‘Pure Heroine’ era, so this reunion for ‘Melodrama’ felt like two collaborators who genuinely trust each other’s ear picking right back up rather than a random pairing. ‘Melodrama’ itself went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed pop albums of that entire decade, landing on countless year-end best-of lists and cementing Lorde as one of the most thoughtful songwriters of her generation.
‘The Louvre’ specifically stood out among the album’s singles for exactly the reason described here — it doesn’t scream “Flume record” the way a lot of his own artist-led work does, and that’s precisely the point. Flume has always been one of the more chameleon-like producers in the space, equally comfortable delivering a maximalist bass banger under his own name or quietly elevating someone else’s pop song with subtle, textural touches. Tracks like this one are a big part of why so many artists outside dance music keep coming back to him for production work.
