Tame Impala is at the moment (July 17) celebrating the tenth anniversary of its beloved album, Currents, however frontman Kevin Parker can also be dropping some unsubtle hints in regards to the state of the band’s subsequent full-length. The as-yet-untitled effort would be the follow-up to 2020’s The Sluggish Rush, which was launched simply weeks previous to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an Instagram submit earlier this week, Parker revealed a rigorously cropped picture of a whiteboard exhibiting an inventory of songs with the phrase “DONE” and numerous checkmarks written subsequent to them. The artist debuted an unnamed new Tame Impala track final month throughout a Barcelona DJ set, and sources inform SPIN that planning is properly underway for a contemporary spherical of touring with a very redesigned stage present within the months to come back.
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As for Currents, Parker took to Instagram to replicate on the primary decade of its existence. The Grammy-nominated album nudged Tame Impala totally into the mainstream due to hits resembling “The Much less I Know the Higher,” “Let It Occur” and “Finally” and debuted at a then-career greatest No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
“Currents is 10 years previous at the moment. Actually?? It doesn’t really feel like that in any respect,” he wrote. “I suppose as a result of it’s stayed such an enormous a part of my life since then it nonetheless feels contemporary. Once we play ‘Let It Occur’ reside today I nonetheless really feel it deep in my soul. I suppose additionally as a result of it’s taken me this lengthy to essentially admire the music. I had a couple of existential disaster through the making and launch of this album. I couldn’t inform if it was nice or embarrassingly dangerous, to not point out the followers I’d lose by switching up music kinds so closely.”
“Individuals lately have requested me if I used to be feeling fairly satisfied with myself after making this album and the reply is at all times completely not!,” he continued. “There was typically a lot doubt, however I knew it was an album I needed to make. The lows have been low however the highs have been excessive. And through the highs, once I had forgotten to care what folks have been going to suppose, I’d be driving in my automobile listening to mixes feeling prefer it was pure magic, and in these moments I keep in mind considering regardless of the end result I simply needed to undergo with it, and consider in it even when it felt completely blind. Glad I did.”
In its modern assessment, SPIN referred to as Currents “the purest — and most complicated — distillation of all the things that makes the band such a virtually bodily pleasure to take heed to, whether or not it’s the sprawling riffs discovered on their 2010 debut, Innerspeaker, or this album’s taffy-lurid swirls.”
In the meantime, Parker can be again on the DJ decks for 3 early December exhibits in Australia opening for Justice, with whom he collaborated on the French digital duo’s hit 2024 album, Hyperdrama.
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