I started this blog to write about specific artists. Although to be honest, I never really end up writing about them. I am not able to write about them is because honestly music impossible to write about. How do you put words to how music makes you feel? It is a very personal experience and sometimes the body of work that an artist is so vast that you can’t do them justice with a blog post. How do you find the one overarching quality about that artist? Tame Impala is one of those bands.

I met someone years ago that put it beautifully, “Tame Impala are ahead of their time.” That one line is something that has stuck with me for all these years. And that is what defines them they are continuously pushing boundaries. For me, they got psychedelic rock back into the mainstream. Internet forums go on and term them the Beatles of our generation, that is a bit of an overreach, but it just goes on to show the impact they have.

For starters, Tame Impala is an Australian band and is the brainchild and solo project of Kevin Parker. Their third and latest album Currents came in 2015, an album that just threw them into the mainstream. There were whispers of their music here and there, bands were covering their music it was being used in advertisements. But Currents somehow found the perfect balance between pop music and psychedelic rock. A sort of an oxymoron if you may, but this what Tame Impala has been doing redefining psychedelic rock. From a raw sound in their first album Currents was the record that you could here in clubs and yet it retained its distinctiveness.

They have a sound that wants you to blast the music on massive speakers and listen to every instrument. Somehow in their sound, every instrument stands out but merges perfectly. Its bass lines are one of the best I have heard in the recent years and they merge perfectly with the synthesiser. I have been thinking a lot on why the sound of Tame Impala is so seamless and yet so separate, its something that defines them. The answer is very simple, the whole process of recording, playing, production and post-production is done by one person Kevin Parker. He plays every instrument on the record. Everything we listen to is his perception and his sound. Thus, even though they are different instruments they all are one.