Tame Impala
Innerspeaker is the debut record by Tame Impala, a woozy world of synesthesia soul, of hazy home-brewed daydreams and of infinitely unraveling adventures to the bottom of the imagination and back.
Tame Impala is Kevin Parker, Dominic Simper, Jay Watson and Nick Allbrook, a ragtag sandstorm of rainbow riffage, mindbending melody and blissed out adventurism from the most isolated city in the world.
The band's first release came in 2008 with the Tame Impala EP, a homespun artifact of bedroom psych that won them fans the world over for it's simplistic beauty and boundless creativity that echoed the lighter side of Cream, The Nazz and Kyuss.
InnerSpeaker is Tame Impala's chance to paint a far more expansive picture, and sure enough it redrafts the entire Tame Impala world as we knew it into an explosive, cosmic wonderland of ecstatic harmony and heavily jamming journeys into inner space.
Recorded and produced by the band's own Kevin Parker with Death In Vegas’ Tim Holmes on the engineer duties, in an enormous treehouse mansion with 180 degree views of the Indian Ocean just short of the end of the earth a few hours south of Perth, InnerSpeaker is ensconsed with a kind of inspired vastness not unlike the place it was created.
It was then mixed in a completely different kind of nowhere, a log cabin surrounded by snow, deer and shotguns in upstate New York, by renowned sonic maverick Dave Fridmann (MGMT / Flaming Lips).
Since the release of Innerspeaker in mid-2010 the record has been met with a very warm welcome/bienvenido/bievenue/willkommen/youkoso the world over and led the band on several sold out trans-global jaunts. Their whirlwind year culminated in places in the upper echelon of many a 2010 “best of” list and earned Tame Impala The J Award for best Australian Album Of The Year at home.
2011 sees the band taking a last trip around the globe before Kevin Parker and his cohorts hole up to continue work on their 2nd album.
With any luck they won’t be gone too long.
