this is YouTube Outro music

First I heard of him was on here mentioning Brian Eno & Burial in the title

(I know he has connections w Eno) it just invites the eye roll reaction some people have to the hype

I felt the 22 million vibe heavy for the whole album, even before he directly referenced it in the one song.

I’ve also only heard of him on this site. Like 8 threads all at once but I’m not gonna complain

Yeah I don't think the people who are confused and are comparing him to those artists are acting unfairly because like the people hyping him up are also doing that

first of all fire to see this much hype on Flowdan's name, he's been an underground legend since like 2001 in the UK. I didn't even realise most people even remembered who he was lol

But I disagree that's what blew Fred up. He's been producing hits since at least Stefflon Don's 16 shots which from memory was about 5 years ago.

The thing that made me know about him as an artist was the Headie One collab EP he did, which I think is a lot stronger and more interesting than his solo music tbh.

But he's clearly insanely talented. Trained by Brian Eno, can play classsical piano, improv, write scores and produce beats in any genre he wants.

I do think some of the solo songs are following a formula he's got going but that's sadly probably what it takes to build buzz these days. doing the same thing that's worked once for an artist over and over again.

That being said some of these songs are incredible - his remix of Brittany Howard's Stay High, Billie (Loving Arms), his co-production of Jayda G's Both of Us, Stefflon Don's 16 Shots, the whole Headie One GANG EP, FKA Twigs' Don't Judge Me. Some of those are classic level music to me

Accurate

I think he's been working with Brian Eno consistently since he was a teenager or something like that. at one point I think he actually worked for Eno. I can hear it within the music sometimes tbh, but I do think he's putting himself into a box a bit with how uniform all his solo releases have been round the Actual Life

also the whole Actual Life concept is so corny even if the songs are good

that’s actually such a crazy flex to have worked closely w eno wish it translated a bit more in the music or at least what I’ve heard

To be fair, I don't think people would be so quick to call dude a plant if he ain't been speedrunning the industry plant checklist. It's whatever. Issa whole lotta plants in the industry. As I've gotten older I've realized it's very normal. Some thrive and actually put out quality music while some crash and burn. The point is labels are gonna put artists out and give them a ton of promo and buy em a lotta press. Basically investing in their artist(s) and themselves. Gotta spend money to make money.

Fred Again is pretty aight, but why he is getting all this praise and attention from what seems like all the major music blogs and sites like he's god's gift to modern music when it's just pop-EDM and house remixes I do not know. But I'm sure being linked up with Brian Eno has something to do with it.

from memory they're in some random amueteur acapella singing group Eno runs with his neighbours which I can totally imagine for some reason lol

Thing is though Eno does have that side to him too. Yeah he's made experimental stuff, but he's also produced Coldplay. When you look at it like that you see how you get Fred.

There are 5-10 Fred or Fred-produced songs I think are amazing, but then some of it's just cool background music to me

Is someone really a plant though if they've been producing music for other artists for years before their own thing blows up?

To me that's more an 04 Kanye or a Muni Long-type situation.

At the end of the day most artists are plants to some extent. Most artists will have a mentor or be getting investment early on from someone. Few people 100% put themselves on

Dudes making threads based on someone else's writing pieces

you know what, I appreciate this pov, you’re right

USB if you want more uptempo bangers

Actual Life 2 if you wanna hear his more vulnerable records

I’ve never heard a Fred Again song tbh… where should I start?

Not mad at this opinion tbh it don't hit like it used to

Suddenly he's a POP artist when you compare him to actual electronic musicians LMFMAOOO you niggas are so unserious on here. I couldn't even fathom this level of d***sucking being possible outside of Kanye and Drake stans

Thanks .. that actual life 1 good too ?

Lol this that smoke a fat blunt an put the speakers on max s***

F*** around have an OBE

Yup. Kyle, Dermot, Julia, Me, Marea are Fred essentials

boiler room first imo

how isnt he pop? we gonna pretend like hes making the same music as aphex twin?

‘actual electronic musicians’ tf does that even mean lmfao. some of the posts in here are so pretentious i stg