Tame Impala have introduced Deadbeat, their fifth album, out on October seventeenth by way of Columbia Data.
Serving as Kevin Parker’s first Tame Impala album since 2020’s The Sluggish Rush, Deadbeat sees Parker taking inspiration from the Western Australia rave scene and ‘bush doof tradition,’ which refers to an Australian subculture centered round outside dance events with digital music in distant pure settings. Together with embracing a extra digital palette, the album additionally digs into Parker’s frustrations with himself, likening self-sabotage to a destructive suggestions loop and analyzing the trivia of his unhealthy habits. The album paintings includes a picture of Parker along with his daughter, Peach.
Parker supplied the primary preview for Deadbeat in July with the seven-minute “Finish of Summer season,” which takes inspiration from acid home, psychedelic pop, and Australia’s free get together motion all through the ’80s and ’90s. He returned on Wednesday (September third) to unveil the second single, “Loser,” which includes a extra self-deprecating tone in keeping with the remainder of Deadbeat and arrived with a music video starring actor and musician Joe Keery.
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Deadbeat will arrive in varied digital and bodily codecs on October seventeenth. Along with Deadbeat touchdown on all main DSPs, Tame Impala are providing two net store-exclusive vinyl variants on the band’s official store, an City Outfitters unique colour vinyl, an Indie Report Retailer unique colour vinyl, and a restricted quantity of numbered cassettes to be completely bought by way of Brooklyn Vegan and Different Press. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Tame Impala’s final album was 2020’s The Sluggish Rush. Since then, Parker has remained busy, producing new music for Dua Lipa and the Barbie soundtrack, collaborating with Thundercat and Justice (the latter of which earned Parker his first Grammy award), and inventing his personal instrument, The Orchid.
Revisit our overview of The Sluggish Rush.
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