“I always thought that I was okay at doing music, and I had fun doing it, but I never really thought I could actually make a career out of it,” Flume tells Apple Music. It didn’t take long for Harley Streten to realise just how wrong he was. His 2012 debut album Flume brought a new sound to dance music: spliced, squelchy, backwards beats and hazy, melted melodies. Woozy, stretched-out songs like “Holdin On” didn’t sound like anything getting played in clubs at the time, and Streten never anticipated that sound would become so popular. Even for him, it was a side project at the time. “The Flume stuff was just a bit of fun, a creative outlet for me to make stuff that wasn't for the club,” he says. “Ironically, I ended up playing in clubs a lot after that, when it started to take off.” Flume’s Grammy-winning sophomore LP, 2016’s Skin, was ambitious and broad. From the seductive dance-pop of “Never Be Like You” featuring Kai to the intense, dramatic “Smoke & Retribution”, featuring Vince Staples and Kučka, it flung itself across every corner of the dance music spectrum—but never strayed quite so far that you wouldn’t know who’d produced it. His sound put him on the map, after all, particularly through remixes of artists like Hermitude and Disclosure and fan-favourite collabs like “Drop the Game” with Chet Faker. His third full-length, Palaces, marks a decade of his career. Through tracks like the emotive, catchy “Say Nothing”, featuring MAY-A, and the darkly angelic “Sirens”, featuring Caroline Polachek, it’s clear that Streten is an artist who knows how to build on his own success. It’s never easy for an artist with a “signature sound”—play it safe and you risk sounding boring; venture too far and you risk alienating fans—but if anyone’s proven their ability to continue evolving while retaining what made him a trendsetter in the first place, it’s Flume.