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Ours is an age of fleeting connections, a mad proliferation of voices issuing forth from speakers unknown. With the chorus line of the digital era swiftly becoming a cacophony, there’s much to be said for locating one’s innerspeaker, a term Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker uses to explain the feeling he gets when he’s at his most inspired.
It’s also the title of his band’s first full-length, the logical conclusion of a lifetime spent honing skills in Perth, Western Australia, one of the world’s most secluded cities. Logical because Innerspeaker is a record half a world away from the kind of artistic pretense that regularly infects bands of Tame Impala’s age and relative inexperience.
With the assistance of Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev producer Dave Fridmann they’ve constructed a sound big enough to park aeroplanes in, and every idea on here is attacked with virtuosic brio and an open mind. Essentially a psychedelic jam suite perfectly encapsulating Parker’s own summation of the genre as “kind of emotive and childlike and f***** up all at the same time”, Innerspeaker has none of the predictable trappings of a modern-day psych record and liquid ambience aplenty.
First track It Is Not Meant To Be rides in on a wave of third-eye guitar jangle and magic carpet bass, the band playing with the sort of empathic intelligence that’s made Dungen a wonder of the retro-rocking world. Then they coax wicked sounds from their guitars on Desire Be Desire Go, which again does hippie with none of the whimsy and all of the danger. Parker’s vocals, meanwhile, recall late-period Beatles – dreamy, distracted and ever so slightly paranoid.
That isn’t to say Innerspeaker is completely devoid of contemporary sounds – Alter Ego marries the colours-run, shoegazey texture of an Atlas Sound cut with racing, druggy beats. And Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? has a fine Stereolab-esque groove which evokes, strangely enough, Bradford Cox’s collaboration with the ‘Lab’s own Laetitia Sadier, Quick Canal. Elsewhere, Bold Arrow of Time is one of the few moments on the record to explicitly tap the psychedelic blues root – Cream would be an obvious reference point here, but we’ll go instead with the expansiveness of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The band recently opened for MGMT in the US. But while they undoubtedly remain more of a boutique concern than Messrs VanWyngarden and Goldwasser, with Innerspeaker Tame Impala display an intuitive feel for psychedelia’s insurgent streak and joy in non-conformity that’s far in excess of their peers.
--Alex DenneyFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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STANDARD EDITION : Debut 2010 album of Woozy psych-pop 'n' eye-glazing sonic jams from the Perth princes. Includes "Solitude Is Bliss" and "Desire Be Desire Go". Named Triple J's Australian Album Of The Year for 2010!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I'm getting on a bit now. 36 this year. I've heard lots of music in my time - spent the last 20 years doing nothing but listening to music, going to see gigs, concerts, festivals etc. This is the best debut album I've ever heard. So assured, sounds amazin, great catchy melodies and riffs - i really can't fault it. Lazy wannabe journos describe it as a mix of pink floyd / cream / hendrix / beatles but its truly their own sounds - they make their music their own, every last note.
Can't recommend these guys enough!!! BUY BUY!!!
Can't recommend these guys enough!!! BUY BUY!!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Up until last Christmas I'd only heard bits of Tame Impala's music on BBC 6 Music, but what I did hear was enough to want their album, due to their superb sound. So, my girlfriend got me it as a Chrismas present.
There are a lot of new bands about, so to say Tame Impala are one of the best is no overstatement. While the sound is somewhat unique for an album released in 2010, it is very much like some of the multi-layered vibes of the 1967 psychedelic era. The guitar and bass sound often echoes, roars, and rumbles like the exhaust of a Harley-Davidson, and the vocals are somewhat Lennon-esque (in the manner of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) but most importantly, all of the songs are good, especially the single 'Solitude Is Bliss'. There's not one bad track on the album, hence my 5 star rating.
I certainly hope they do a UK tour this year!
There are a lot of new bands about, so to say Tame Impala are one of the best is no overstatement. While the sound is somewhat unique for an album released in 2010, it is very much like some of the multi-layered vibes of the 1967 psychedelic era. The guitar and bass sound often echoes, roars, and rumbles like the exhaust of a Harley-Davidson, and the vocals are somewhat Lennon-esque (in the manner of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) but most importantly, all of the songs are good, especially the single 'Solitude Is Bliss'. There's not one bad track on the album, hence my 5 star rating.
I certainly hope they do a UK tour this year!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Brilliant! Got introduced to this a bit early by a friend from Oz, completely blown away by this- they've somehow made 60's-Garage-Noisy-Psychedelic rock sound cool, fresh and 'new'. Which doesn't make sense, but believe me when you listen to this you will feel the same. My fav has got to be 'Solitude is Bliss'- lovely John Lennon-stylee-grunge rock that the aussies seem to be so good at right now. A definite 5 out of 5!
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Where have you been all my life?!
This album has changed my life, opens up my heart and mind. These guys are seriously talented and I eagerly await anything new they do. LOVE!
Published 4 days ago by S. shand
Sundown Syndrome
Such a great, GREAT album. Along with Deerhunter & Crystal Stilts, 2 other recently emerged psychedelia-inspired bands, Innerspeaker is definitely one of my favourite LPs of the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rooksby
Innerspeaker
This is a fantastic album. It is worth more than £5.10 in my opinion. The art work is really cool too.
Published 3 months ago by CosmicRhi
Awesome...a Syd Barrett wants to be.
Tame Impala it's a great band, this cd is to exciting. Awesome songs, "Alter Ego", "Lucidity" and others are powerful pop/psychodelic songs. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jcnaweb
inner-spired
Five stars for the listening pleasure this album delivers , It's a unique little masterpiece , the only criticism being it has to end and leaves me wanting more ,something very... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. J. Fulton
Cream of the crop
Innerspeaker is Tame Impala's first album. Listening to this you wonder about how good they could be. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Syriat
Love this CD!
This is a really great CD, the best that I've heard for a long, long time. The music sounds familiar rather than too derivative and at the moment I don't seem to want to listen to... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jules
InnerSpeaker
I loved the debut EP from a year or so ago.
I also brought the hard to get Sundown Syndrome EP.
InnerSpeaker is the 1st full album from Tame Impala. Read more
I also brought the hard to get Sundown Syndrome EP.
InnerSpeaker is the 1st full album from Tame Impala. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Bring_back_the_60s
Worst sounding album of all time
Musically an interesting album taking inspiration from 60's psychedelia. Unfortunately the band/producer/record company treats the buying customer with utter contempt as the... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Pal Jensen
'Innerspeaker', inner-peace !!
I've got alot of music, I'm in my mid forties and the music genres I appreciate are wide and diverse. Read more
Published 13 months ago by messiahontrial
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