Just hit her up on Instagram and I just sent her some ideas back and forth online. We don't even work together that much but when we do, it just seems to work. She's Australian, as well and we've done something on almost every single full length release except for the first record. But I just kept playing them hoping that he'd be into something eventually and then finally, what I think was the second last idea, he was like, "yep, this one, let's do something on this." I was sweating there for a while but we worked on that there and then continued working on it at another point. I played him a bunch of ideas and he was not particularly into any of them at first. We did some music in Vegas, we both played the same festival and then afterwards, we got in the studio together. I've been a huge fan of Damon Albarn, with Blur and Gorillaz growing up, it was always one of my biggest inspirations, or he was, and I'd always wanted to work with him and I actually managed to get in touch with him. Touching on the collaborations, there’s some new faces and some old, how did those come about? There’s just all sorts of interesting kinds of angles to look at the world through, so we base the world on that and build it out from there. Maybe it's as obvious as Greenpeace or maybe one of the world's largest arms dealers. So then we created this motorbike rider, and we were like, let's do the branding with a condom brands or vasectomy brands or euthanasia companies. Because as we all know, it's kind of what's destroying Mother Nature the most.
I was speaking to Jonathan for a while about this idea: What if Mother Nature somehow owned a Fortune500 company? What would Mother Nature invest in? Then we were thinking, well, it's probably things that are detrimental to human existence or preventative. We wanted to build out this world, at least the visual world, and make it really feel cohesive. Well, I mean, it's like a bunch of collaborations with other people and there's not really a strict narrative throughout the record. What sort of ideas were you playing with on the album? From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English flume /flum/ noun countable a long narrow structure built for water to slide down, which is used to move water or wood, or which people slide down for fun a log flume Examples from the Corpus flume Heated to 84 F, it boasts flume rides, a wave machine and tropical rainstorms.