Lonerism was led by 'Elephant', a punchy, three and a half minute belter that Parker called "the groovy, glam, T-Rex moment on the album". I'm not trying to fuel this backup life anymore. I no longer have any other part of my life to worry about. "Every time we do something we feel like it's relevant, totally new and has absolutely nothing to do with anything that happened in the past." 2012," he told triple j's Richard Kingsmill in 2012. "We are people of now, the time that it is. No one ever talks to us about Tame Impala."įrom the propulsive, claustrophobic opener 'Be Above It' to the plain but pretty 'Sun's Coming Up', the album felt like a modern interpretation of classic rock, complete with that haze of heady success and youthful musical genius that all the best bands of the '60s and '70s had.įans and critics said plenty about that retro influence, but Parker dismissed it. The only thing we have to go by is people at shows and whatever we see on the internet, which isn't always accurate anyway. "I actually have no idea how further spread we are this time around. "It definitely feels like it's taken a step up this time around," Simper told triple j's Zan Rowe in 2012. Imagine a NASA worker who's grown up dealing with mental patients and enjoys music in his spare time." Chapter 3 Lonerism "He's a genuine scientist more than a mad scientist.
"Dave was my pillar of sanity actually," Parker said. "I thought we'd instantly connect and be able to ramble to each other – but it took a couple of days to get a communication thing," he said.īut, when things clicked, the two had a clear personal and musical connection that helped make the album shine. In an interview with triple j's The Doctor later that year, Parker admitted that it took a while for each of them to understand where each other were coming from. I barely left the cabin and only really slept in the mornings before Dave arrived." "Wayne Coyne's random fluorescent spiral murals on the wall didn't help either.
I was so jet-lagged and overwhelmed, I was like a confused zombie," he told triple j.
"I thought I was going crazy the first week I was there. The young Aussie was excited to work with such a revered and inspirational figure, but it didn't exactly go to plan. Innerspeaker was mixed in New York by long time Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev producer Dave Fridmann, with Parker by his side. But with these tours, by the time you get used to touring you're back home, sitting on your bed doing nothing," then bassist, now guitarist, Dom Simper said. "You get used to like two or three days into a tour. Tame Impala were living at home, working day jobs and spending the weekends out on the road playing pubs and clubs along the east coast of the country.
"I feel like I'm in the Army Reserve," Kevin Parker told triple j's Scott Dooley in 2009. The hype might have helped Tame Impala gain an audience quickly, but they still had to do a lot of the hard work expected from emerging indie acts. "We chose those songs from around 25 we had on the EP.
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"A lot of the songs are from a long time ago," he told triple j TV in 2009.
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It spawned a couple of minor indie hits in 'Desire Be, Desire Go' and 'Half Full Glass Of Wine' and proved that the hype surrounding this mysterious Perth collective was justified.įor Kevin Parker, it was a way to excise some tracks that had been sitting on his hard drive for some time. Tame Impala's self-titled EP in 2008 featured five tracks of woozy, almost transcendental psychedelia. I'll start a song and love it and be like 'this is the best song I've ever done' and then a week later I'll be like 'oh, this is pretty ordinary'.
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