Tame Impala's Kevin Parker sits down with Pitchfork to talk about some of his favorite drum sounds.
Tame Impala finally dropped 'The Slow Rush,' after keeping fans waiting on a new album for 5 years. Stream the album & find the best Twitter reactions here.
It was just a funny thing because, to me, Tame Impala look like a band. It wouldn’t obviously mean that they would all have to be brothers; they didn’t look like brothers, but I guess other people thought differently, and, just because I’m a ...
“Elephant” shatter your mind and then blow away the pieces. I really liked BEARDS, WIVES, DENIM by Pond, which is essentially Tame Impala, but overall I think LONERISM is the stronger, more accessible record. But don’t take my word for it: go sit in the dark tonight with this ...
When I mention to him that “Let It Happen” features no obvious guitars until well past the six-minute mark, Parker seems puzzled by the comment. Many Tame Impala songs haven’t featured any guitar at all, he reminds me, even standout single “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.” Though...
“Let It Happen,” there’s this part at the end where I’m singing through this keyboard sampler thing, almost like a vocoder but not really. And the first take I did, I was just singing gibberish and making sounds with my mouth just to test it out. And I didn’t even know what...
” But it was the songs from Tame Impala’s forthcoming third album,Currents, that gave the show its mainstream pop appeal. Two of the highly anticipated album’s lead singles, “Eventually” and “Let It Happen,” reverberated through Randall’s Island’s mud-soaked fields with heaps of ...
Kevin Parker's fourth album, The Slow Rush, is his best – and most painful – yet. He speaks to Esquire about forgiveness, escaping fire and perfectionism
(which currently has nearly 400,000,000 streams on Spotify alone) boasts a moonwalking funk bassline. But while it has massive earworm crossover appeal,Currentsreally thrives in its more experimental moments. Just take opener “Let It Happen” (arguably the best song Parker’s ever written), ...