Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
25 July 2025
Press photo by Julian Klincewicz
It has been already 5 years since one-man-dance-pop-band TAME IMPALA
released its 4th LPTHE SLOW RUSH. Since then singer-songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist KEVIN PARKER focused on writing film music.
But the wait is over for the millions of TA fans.
New single END OF SUMMER pounds like a heartbeat in overdrive for
7-plus-minutes with Parker‘s helium vocals floating all over it. An old
skool dancefloor filler, a familiar disco killer.
Wake up people,
here comes a fast
rush of blood to
the head.
GORILLAZ share their new album, titled CRACKER ISLAND
with the world next year, on 24 February 2023.
Cracker Island is the eighth studio album from Gorillaz, an energetic, upbeat,
genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar line-up
of artist collaborators: Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Adeleye
Omotayo, Bootie Brown and Beck. Recorded in London and LA earlier this year, it
is produced by Gorillaz, Remi Kabaka jr. and eight-time Grammy Award-winning producer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter extraordinaire Greg Kurstin.
Following the title track, we get a second taster. NEW GOLD
features Tampa Impala‘s Kevin Parker and trip-hopper Bootie
Browne. It’s a terrific pop/rap energizer injected with shots
of adrenalin.
On first hearing, it sounds like this is a lost Diana Ross/Motown song from
the 70s with The Temptations taking care of the harmonies/backing vocals.
On second hearing, it still sounds the same way as the first time. It will stay
that way, undoubtedly.
To give this year’s TAME IMPALA album THE SLOW RUSH, released on Valentine’s Day, a Xmas-sales-push the record label drops an animated clip for BREATHE DEEPER, one of the LP’s many cheesy tracks (yes, I’m not a big Impala fan, sounds too much like the Bee Gees after they inhaled too much helium). But hey, it’s a cool video, so here we go…