16 December 2020
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…
Full album…
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TAME IMPALA: Facebook
12/13 December 2020
Five new firecrackers to bang-up your favorite 48 hours…
1. ‘Dark Minds’ by VANESSA ANNE RED (London, UK)
Grand voice. Grand tune. Grand performance. Glimmering guitars, flabbergasting structure and sky-high chorus bringing the late great Kirsty MacColl to mind. Top score!
The first single off her upcoming third solo album.
“It’s the wishful thinking of a dark scorched mind
Leads us far beyond and leaves everything behind
Brings us far beyond and leaves everything behind”
2. Infralight by LABASHEEDA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Spot-on catchy jingle-jangle stroke. Crackling guitars, basement drum beat, rollin’ bass
and pithy vocals. This band balances between their near-legendary indie countrymen Bettie Serveert and the early tumult of The Breeders. And that pretty cool violin fragment gives this rad ripper a surprising touch. From their new excellent album Status Seeking.
Let’s roll…
3. ‘We’re All Going To Hell’ by HEARSE PILEUP (UK)
I love these lines on their FB-page: “Lies can only be found by questioning the truths we are fed. An angry band for angry people. Or those who want to become angry.” Sounds so 2020! Expect a mad-guitar-crazy-fueled garage juggernaut on a supersonic run, smelling like Satan waiting in a dark alley. Hell bloody hell yeah!
Either the rapture didn’t happen
Or we’re all going to hell
Put your hands over your nose
Try to ignore that burning smell
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4. ‘The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas) by PORRIDGE RADIO (Brighton, UK)
A poignant eruption with a fervidness growing in intensity along its way.
Not Xmassy at all! Sorry Santa, you’re not wanted here this year. Capice?
“Every year, the same/ Every year, the rain/
Every year, the dark/ I feel it coming around it again.”
5. ‘A Girl Like You’ by TAME IMPALA (AUS)
Kevin Parker and his Tame Impala combo join the long 2020 cue of artists covering other artists. He picked ‘A Girl Like You’, the massive 1994 hit from Edwyn Collins, the former frontman of Scottish band Orange Juice.
Sing it, Kevin…
See/hear you next week, music junkies…
12 November 2020
Dream pop darling KEVIN PARKER entertained us a few weeks ago with a bedroom
cover of John Lennon‘s Jealous Guy to celebrate the late great Beatle’s 80th birthday.
And yesterday he played with his band TAME IMPALA his version
of Nelly Furtado’s 2006 smash hit Say It Right for the BBC.
Watch/listen here…
The original…
New sonic impulses…
MIKE SKINNER‘s successful hip hop project THE STREETS returns nine years after their longplayer Computers And Blues came out. The new track CALL MY PHONE THINKING I’M DOING NOTHING is the first single from The Streets’ new mixtape ‘NONE OF US ARE GETTING OUT OF THIS LIFE ALIVE’, out in July, featuring several guests.
For this song, Skinner teamed up with Tame Impala‘s mastermind Kevin Parker. In the clip you see Skinner trying to phone all his friends from a winter sports location while Kevin Parker sits in a sunlit apartment. It looks like a sonic social distancing message.
Watch/listen here…
THE STREETS: Facebook
After releasing their long-awaited new, fourth album ‘The Slow Rush’ pop dream sensation TAME IMPALA, led by singer/songwriter KEVIN PARKER, are ready for
a Northern America tour. To promote their live stint the band played on TV show
Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday evening. They played two songs from the fresh LP.
The vibey ‘Lost In Yesterday’ and a nearly six-minute rendition of the starry-eyed
humdinger ‘Breathe Deeper’. Check them both out right here…
– LOST IN YESTERDAY –
– BREATHE DEEPER –
TAME IMPALA: Facebook
The Slow Rush in full…
Brand new releases…
14 February 2020
Finally after five years since Currents came out TAME IMPALA released their fourth album titled ‘THE SLOW RUSH’. A lush synth pop collection with a lot of danceable
dream tunes.
This record will make Kevin Parker, who wrote all the sings, a bigger cuddly bear than
he already is. NME said “As far as follow-ups to an earth-shattering run of albums go, though this is much more than just a solid return. It is, overall, an exhilarating listen. Tame Impala are unlikely to lose any fans by embracing Parker’s pop sensibilities – genres are history, man – but you have to admire their wilful desire to push into new directions. This band aren’t rock music’s saviours; they’re so much more than that.”
Stream full album here…
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The singles…
– BORDERLINE –
– IT MIGHT BE TIME –
– LOST IN YESTERDAY –
– POSTHUMOUS FORGIVENESS –
TAME IMPALA: Facebook
New sonic impulses…
Australian psych pop dreamers TAME IMPALA, led by founder and singer/songwriter Kevin Parker will release their fourth full length, titled ‘THE SLOW RUSH‘ on Valentine’s Day, 14th February. So far the band shared three tracks. And here is number four. ‘LOST IN YESTERDAY’ is a lively and sugar sweet pop tune with a trippy vibe. Check it out right here…
If you missed the previous three shared songs, you can hear them here…
– BORDERLINE –
– POSTHUMOUS FORGIVENESS –
(lyrics video)
TAME IMPALA: Facebook
THE SLOW RUSH – out 14th February – pre-order facilities here
Brand new sonic impulses…
Although Aussie popsters TAME IMPALA haven’t announced a new album yet they shared last month new track Patience, a feather-light feel-good vibe. And today they dropped another new similar one. BORDERLINE also has a trippy disco rhythm. From psychedelia to dreamy dance.
Brand new sonic impulses…
22 March 2019
Five years after their triumphant 2015 album Currents Kevin Parker and his orchestra return with new track ‘PATIENCE‘. A frisky and soulful dance tune. Both zippy and mind-relaxing. Here’s the audio clip…
TAME IMPALA: Website – Facebook – Tour Dates