TAME IMPALA

MIKE BARNES

Lonerism FICTION Kevin Parker’s breakout 2012 album released as a triple LP set. Drummer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker recorded Tame Impala’s second album largely solo at home in Perth, Australia. Compared to 2010’s Innerspeaker debut, there are more electronics and samples, and Parker sounds more confident, more in tune with his muse, and, by his own assessment, more fully immersed in the music. Much has been made of Lonerism’s psychedelic feel, but whereas 60s psychedelia expanded minds through a more demonstrative and outgoing use of sonic disorientation, Parker’s music doesn’t give up its secrets so readily. Although it has a muscularity and presence, once inside, the listener feels adrift in a kind of woozy, perfumed haze. “The listener feels adrift in a woozy, perfumed haze.” Be Above It starts the…

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