After dropping two songs this summer time, Tame Impala have introduced a brand new album – their first in 5 years. The follow-up to 2020’s The Slow Rush is titled Deadbeat and arrives October 17 by way of Columbia. Take a look at the quilt paintings for the album beneath.
Kevin Parker ushered in Tame Impala’s return in July with “End of the Summer,” which arrived with a trippy split-screen music video. Then, yesterday, he additionally rolled out the brand new track “Loser.” Tame Impala tapped Joe Keery—the Stranger Things and Pavements actor who information his personal music as Djo—to star in that music video the place, for a quick few seconds, he swaps locations with Parker to inform the story of a dejected burnout.
Deadbeat, in accordance with a press launch, “is deeply impressed by bush doof tradition and the Western Australia rave scene.” Parker labored on the album in his Fremantle hometown and at his studio in Injidup, Western Australia. The 12-song mission will embrace each “Finish of the Summer time” and “Loser.”
Though The Gradual Rush got here out 5 years in the past, Parker has been a lot busy since then. He won his first-ever Grammy Award, the Best Dance/Electronic Recording trophy, for the Justice collaboration “Neverender.” Then there’s all of the movie contributions, with Tame Impala recording “Journey to the Real World” for the Barbie film, “Wings of Time” for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves, a remix of “Edge of Reality” for Elvis, and the Diana Ross collaboration “Turn Up the Sunshine” for Minions: The Rise of Gru.
In fact, Parker has lent his expertise to various different songs over the previous couple years, too. The Tame Impala mastermind recorded “No More Lies” with Thundercat, “One Night/All Night” with Justice, “New Gold” with Gorillaz, and “Call My Phone Thinking I’m Doing Nothing Better” with the Streets. That doesn’t even embrace all of the remixes artists like 070 Shake, the Crowded House, and Justice have requested him to do, or him helming the manufacturing board for Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism.
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