This morning, Tame Impala were revealed as one of this year’s Splendour In The Grass headliners, alongside Childish Gambino and Chance The Rapper. But Kevin Parker's excited by some other acts on the bill.

“Are The Streets playing!? Oh my god!”

That's how Kev reacted when he joined Ben & Liam on triple j Breakfast for the epic line-up announce.

After making their live return on SNL with new song 'Borderline', Parker and his live crew are about to headline Coachella festival, which he’s kind of treating as a bit of a warm-up for Splendour. “Put it this way, we’re flying by the seat of our pants now but I think by the time Splendour comes we’ll be a well-oiled machine.”

He said we'd "quite possibly" be seeing things at Splendour that we won't see at their Coachella show but wouldn’t reveal when Tame Impala’s new album and follow-up to Currents would be dropping, saying that “everything is up in the air until the album is finished.”

However, Kevin did reveal that if you've got a hankering for more percussion after 'Patience', you're in luck. "There’s at least one other song with congas," he confirmed, jokingly adding that "there is between one and all the rest of the songs with congas.”

And no, calling Tame Impala's first new material in four years ‘Patience’ wasn't some kind of calculated in-joke. “Not directly but I think it was kind of fitting,” Kev explained.

“We definitely had a chuckle to ourselves, like ‘Oh people are going to say it was intentional’. But honestly not, ultimately it was a coincidence, but it did validate calling the song that and it being the first song we dropped.”

So, what element of the new single is the producer/songwriter most proud of? "Probably just my piano playing ability. I think I’m celebrating finally being able to play piano with two hands,” Kev said with a hearty chuckle.

“I hate to ruin the mythology of the synths and keys playing on previous albums. I just wanted to do something bold with a piano part like that, I feel like all my piano parts and instrumentation has always been understated.”

Chances are you won’t see Kev behind the keys for the live shows. “We’ll see. You know what? Literally everyone else on stage is better on piano than me.” But you’ll likely see their bearded conga player, who joined the group for their SNL performance.

“Rafi? Yeah hopefully. He’s our monitors guy, we just got him to play congas but by all reports he did a pretty good job so I don’t think we’ll be replacing him.” Listen to the full chat below.

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Check out the full Splendour In The Grass 2019 line-up below.