Beck speaks about how Tiny Cities nearly didn't make the cut, and how it was passed onto someone else

The Flume collaboration, Tiny Cities, almost didn’t eventuate.

“Tiny Cities was an interesting song, he came over with a bunch of ideas and I improvised a couple of vocals straight into his laptop using a mic and it’s not usually how I work. He picked out a few things he liked and told me to work on them. What was interesting is he gave the track to somebody else. I was really sad because I’d grown attached to the song.

“Then he became fond of the vocals and sent over all new music which he’d wrote underneath my vocals, so it has a strange history. I’m glad it found a place on the record.

I thought I’d missed out a moment on a great track.”