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sound of spacy, guitar-heavy psychedelic pop has never really gone out
of fashion since the Beatles brought it to the mainstream in the late
'60s, with proponents like Pink Floyd and the Flaming Lips managing to
make long careers out of mining its every seam. In the 2010s, there is
no more popular psych-pop group than Australia's Tame Impala. Kevin
Parker (vocals/guitar) and Dominic Simper (bass) formed the band as
13-year-olds in Perth in 1999, sticking to bedroom recordings until
2007, when Jay Watson joined them on drums and backing vocals. Their
sound was pure late '60s, but wasn't the sound of any specific band
from the era. They were as likely to channel the Nazz as the Jimi
Hendrix Experience. Cocooned away inside walls of psychedelic fuzz in
Western Australia, they re-created their preferred period one song at
a time with the aid of gear and production techniques that sounded
like they hadn't been dusted off since 1968. Like a lot of the buzz
bands of the mid- to late 2000s Tame Impala's story involves MySpace.
The social networking website rocketed them from a teenage garage band
to the sought-after trophy in a multiple-label bidding war. It started
when Modular Records sent them a message after hearing several songs
on their MySpace page and asked for more. Tame Impala sent them a demo
with 20 songs, which led to requests and offers from everyone under
the sun. After consideration, they stuck with the label that had shown
first interest, and signed with Modular in 2008. In September of that
year they released their first self-titled EP. There was some
confusion among reviewers, several of whom referred to the release as
"Antares, Mira, Sun" after the notes written on the artwork, a
representation of the Orion Nebula drawn by bandleader and songwriter
Parker. As well as drawing the art, the perfectionist Parker
micromanaged the recording, performing every instrument himself. The
EP went to number ten on the ARIA charts and number one on the
independent label charts. Though Parker played everything in the
studio, live Tame Impala functioned as a real band, though at their
early gigs they were famously unprepared and never wore shoes. At one
such shambolic gig for a Vice Magazine party in Melbourne, indie
electro-pop band MGMT's label manager caught their act and was
impressed enough to offer them the support slot when his band toured
Australia. That year they also supported the Black Keys and You Am I
on national tours. Innerspeaker In 2010, Tame Impala made their
full-length debut with the Dave Fridmann-mixed Innerspeaker. Recorded
mainly in a remote beach house four hours outside Perth, Parker did
almost all the music, this time letting Watson and Simper contribute a
little bit. The album was a critical and popular success, gaining the
band fans all over the globe, being nominated for many awards in
Australia including ARIA Album of the Year and winning the J Album of
the Year nod. Shortly after the record's release, Parker returned to
his home studio in Perth to begin work on new material, which he
started recording while the band was on tour. Along the way he lost
half the album when his iPod fell out of his bag, he moved to Paris
(where he produced Melody's Echo Chamber's album), and eventually,
after a year of mixing with Dave Fridmann, he finished the album.
Lonerism Released in 2012, Lonerism was a less guitar-heavy, far
weirder album than Innerspeaker, yet it made an even bigger splash.
Tame Impala repeated as winners of the J Award for Album of the Year
and topped many year-end polls (including NME), and the record was
nominated for Best Alternative Album at the Grammys. All this success
made Parker an in-demand collaborator, and Mark Ronson was the biggest
name to make a connection, with Parker working on a handful of tracks
on Ronson's Uptown Special album. At the same time, Parker and some
friends formed the space disco band AAA Aardvark Getdown Services.
These were touchstones for the next Tame Impala record, 2015's
Currents, which saw their sound expanded to include more up-tempo
dance music-informed tracks and some smooth R&B stylings. The record
swept a number of categories at the 2015 ARIA Awards, including Best
Album, and was once again nominated for Best Alternative Album at the
2016 Grammys. Parker stayed busy during the next few years with
collaborations including work with Koi Child, Lady Gaga, Yasiin Bey,
ZHU, and Mick Jagger. On the Tame Impala front, they released an
expanded edition of Currents, which contained three previously unheard
tracks and remixes by Pond and Soulwax. In 2019, Parker kicked Tame
Impala back into gear, landing a handful of high-profile summer
festival headline slots in anticipation of their Currents follow-up.
The first single from that project, "Patience," was released that
March.
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