Flume and Emma Louise Drop New Single ‘Easy Goodbye’
The track is the first taste of the duo’s upcoming collaborative album, DUMB.
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Australian favs Flume and Emma Louise have teamed up for new album DUMB, sharing the project’s first single, ‘Easy Goodbye’.
This will be Flume’s first full-length project since 2023 mixtape, Things Don't Always Go the Way You Plan, and Louise’s first studio album since 2018’s Lilac Everything.
‘Easy Goodbye’, the first tease of DUMB, is exactly what you’d expect from Flume, whose future beats provide a shifting base for Louise’s delicate vocals.
Taking to Instagram to explain the meaning behind DUMB, Louise posted: “In the studio, whenever we got stuck, Harley and I would say ‘make it dumb’ to stop overthinking. It worked every time.
“At first, naming the album Dumb felt irreverent and freeing, but later I realised how deeply it connected to my own fear of being seen differently. Like so many others who grew up undiagnosed neurodivergent, I felt that I had to contort myself to fit spaces I knew couldn’t hold my shape.
“Much of what led to the deep and sometimes dark lyrical content in this album was the shedding of that fear of unworthiness. So by the time the decision was finalised, the naming of the record filled me with the same freedom as it did in the studio.
“We both want to create art for art’s sake; to express our experiences, to take what’s inside us, messy and unclear to ourselves, and bring it into the world in a form we can understand. That’s exactly what this album is.”
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The release of ‘Easy Goodbye’ comes shortly after Flume teamed with JPEGMAFIA for their collaborative EP We Live in a Society. Before that, he’s kept a low profile since dropping his 2023 mixtape Arrived Anxious, Left Bored.
Emma Louise has been even quieter. Since her last album in 2018, the Aussie songstress, who’s married to songwriter and producer Tobias Jesso Jr, has released ‘Hollow’ with Flume in 2022 and a couple of 2024 remixes of her hit single ‘Jungle’.
‘Easy Goodbye’ by Flume and Emma Louise is out now. Pre-order DUMB here.
