LP - Tame Impala - Currents - Limited Colored Wax - 2xLP
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"Much has changed since Tame Impala first emerged with an EP of
dusty home recordings in 2008. By and large Kevin Parker’s approach to
recording has not, though the sound coming out of his home studio has
vastly expanded, as has the number of people anticipating the fruits of
his labor. Tame Impala’s third album is titled Currents, and on it
Parker addresses a blindingly colorful panorama of transition in the
most audacious, adventurous fashion he’s yet to capture on record.
Dense with heady lyrical introspection, musically the most playful,
bold and varied Tame Impala record to date, Currents is Parker putting
down his weapons and embracing change as the only constant – sonically,
thematically, and personally. Musically, Currents sounds like the work
of a player on top of his game and having a blast, Parker indulging his
whims and unafraid to dive down the rabbit hole after an idea.
Again operating as a one man studio band, Parker’s resultant record
calls to mind contemporary hip hop production, Thriller, fried '70s
funk, the irreverent playground Daft Punk presented on Discovery,
swathes of future pop and emotional '80s balladry, all filtered through a
thoroughly modern psychedelic third eye. A genre-bending soundscape
fueled equally by curiosity as it is consciousness, it’s exhilarating
new territory for Tame Impala.
Lyrically the record finds Parker in a very different place in 2015
to where he was seven years ago. Transitions in life, relationships,
perspectives, mindsets – Currents maps Parker’s evolution through these
and finds him a brand new person. In parts of both 2010’s Innerspeaker
and 2012’s Lonerism Tame Impala sounded like a guy on the outer wanting
in, now that he’s found himself on the inside Parker’s turned the
spotlight in on himself. Stopping to reflect on the road behind, where
he finds himself currently, and the road ahead, Currents spans a
tumultuous time.
The first track from the record to be unveiled, "Let It Happen," is a
perfectly encapsulating preview of what lies ahead. Coming in just
short of eight minutes, "Let It Happen" traverses a swag of sonic
terrain in its duration. The drums and Parker’s vocal introduction lull
the listener with a sense of familiarity, until it all sweeps up into a
cosmos once populated only by French robots, with insistent melody,
broken machine loops, synthetic orchestration, surfing vocoder and a
shredding guitar outro.
Typically, initial Tame Impala recordings saw Parker’s vocal hidden
beneath a layer of psychedelic fuzz, drenched in reverb, lyrics
ambiguous. Currents finds his voice front and center, so no bones are
made about his intent. Sketched out in planes, cars, hotels and homes
since the completion of Lonerism in 2012, pieced together over the later
part of 2014 and early 2015 at home in Fremantle, Western Australia,
Currents was written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Kevin
Parker. Tame Impala presents Currents, a soundtrack to life’s turbulent
flow." - Interscope
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