The aptly titled “Yes I’m Changing” is one of Tame Impala’s most relaxed and mesmerizing compositions, driven once again by the bass and synth. After making mostly conservative, calculated moves towards pop on Lonerism, Kevin Parker doubles down on change, leading to a tremendous payoff for both artist and listener. Remarkably, Currents more than delivers on this initial promise. The track sets expectations sky-high, promising an album that combines the best of the mind-bending fuzz that Impala is known for with a shifting and constantly evolving sonic palate. However, lest some of Parker’s core fanbase accuse Parker of “selling out” (whatever that even means in an era when making a living off recorded music is becoming nearly impossible), he also graces the slow buildup with one of the band’s best riffs to date. But things get truly interesting in the song’s transformative second half, as a record skip effect signals a shift from the guitar-driven opening to a full-blown electronic crescendo. On “Let it Happen”, the act of letting down one’s reservations is represented both lyrically and sonically, as Parker fuses his act’s signature trippy psychedelic riffage with extensive synthesizers and an actually funky bassline. And the bitter taste of change has never sounded sweeter than on the album’s brilliant opening number.
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Just let it happen, let it happen’”, Parker croons over one of the most infections beats this side of the ‘70s, signaling the beginning of an expansive sonic voyage whose main motif is change, specifically how to embrace dramatic changes in your own life and come out the other side intact. “It's always around me, all this noise/But not nearly as loud as the voice saying/‘Let it happen, let it happen (It's gonna feel so good)/ That’s why “Let It Happen”, the eight-minute disco funk masterpiece that opens new album Currents, comes as such a shock to the system. As more and more gravitated to both Tame Impala’s distinctive sound, and by extension the genre as a whole, it would be only natural for a man like Parker, naturally press-shy and reclusive, to retreat further and further into his drugged-out isolation.
As Tame Impala steadily grew from an Australian niche act on its excellent debut Innerspeaker to receiving wider pop accolades on Lonerism, it is easy to imagine Parker shying away from the growing spotlight he received as he moved from support act on the local festival circuit to playing a mainstage Coachella set directly before fellow Aussies AC/DC. Brilliant with a perfectionist streak bordering on the unhealthy, Parker has spent his career refining a meticulous focus on the inner workings of psychedelia.
The Tame Impala mastermind has typically acted as a solitary genius, recording, producing and now mixing virtually every track the band has ever made by himself, holed up somewhere in his home of Western Australia. But thankfully we have Tame Impala who impregnated that influence into it’s musical catalog that will take you to a wonderful experience that with patience you just need to let it happen.Introversion and obsession have always been dominant forces in the mind of Kevin Parker. You might even imagine, How would have been to live on the 60’s? where the psychedelic rock marked an era for that generation. The show has a mixture of bright and vivid colors on an environment of beats that make you dance since the first note with movements that turn you into the master of the psychedelic dance-floor, in which Parker and company set the tone with very cool songs. The concept and musical project of Kevin Parker, who plays multiple instruments at the studio to bring Tame Impala to life is very interesting and a unique experience on a live show, where other touring musicians join him in order to perform.įrom Australia to the masses with songs like Eventually, The Less I Know The Better and Apocalypse Dreams, Tame Impala became a very big act playing at important music festivals and several cities.
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