Flume finally finds happiness: ‘I didn’t want to tour any more. I hated my job’

Harley Streten, aka Flume, moved to a property in northern New South Wales, seeking a quieter life after spending four years in the Los Angeles music scene. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian

In a trio of overgrown garden beds, tomatoes and chillies climb towards the sky. There are bite-size capsicums, both green and orange, plus bushy shrubs of parsley and rosemary. Somewhere in here, I am told, is pumpkin and sweet potato.

“I had a bunch of kale, too, but it died when I was at Coachella,” Harley Streten says.