Listen: Tame Impala Single ‘Elephant’

Australia’s foremost purveyors of ‘psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music’ (their words!) Tame Impala have today unveiled the lead single from their highly anticipated second album Lonerism. ‘Elephant’ is a stomping slice of chilled out melodica, sounding not unlike Kasabian covering The Beatles (it does in my head anyway!) Check it out here: ‘Elephant’ follows the […]

Tame Impala release artwork and tracklist for new album ‘Lonerism’…

Australian band Tame Impala have revealed more details about their new album Lonersim. As reported earlier this week, Tame Impala announced that they will release their second album this October – the follow up to acclaimed debut Innerspeaker. Today they have released this cover art for Lonerism: The psychedelic rockers have also revealed the tracklisting […]

Listen: Tame Impala Track ‘Apocalypse Dreams’

Psychedelic Australian rockers Tame Impala have finally announced details of their follow-up to 2010’s amazing debut album Innerspeaker – and released a new track to boot. Listen to ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ here: The new album will be released in October on Modular Recordings and be called Lonerism. As you can hear from ‘Apocalypse Dreams’, the album promises […]

Glastonbury

My Glastonbury 2013 review…

Glastonbury is commonly regarded as the world’s biggest and best festival for lots of reasons, but the one reason that stands out for me is the freedom it offers festival-goers to enjoy the weekend however they choose to. Other festivals pack you into designated areas and have a limited amount of stages and options. At […]

Tame Impala - Lonerism cover

Tame Impala – ‘Lonerism’ Album Review

Tame Impala – Lonerism {rating} Buy: Lonerism The slow-burning success of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker’s first album under his Tame Impala guise, 2010’s Innerspeaker, has helped to thrust this follow-up well into the ‘highly anticipated’ category. If this added pressure has had any detrimental effect on Parker, you wouldn’t know it from listening to Lonerism – […]

March playlist

Stream: March playlist – all the best new music from March 2014

Kicking off with Tame Impala’s dreamy cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger In Moscow‘ and finishing off with promising new band Sundara Karma, the below playlist is full of cracking new tunes from the month of March. In between those tracks is a brand new track from The Orwells, De La Soul’s Dilla-produced ‘Vocabulary Spills’, a […]

Tame Impala Live Versions

Tame Impala to release live EP for Record Store Day – listen to ‘Be Above It’ from ‘Live Versions’ here…

Thanks to the huge success of second album Lonerism, Tame Impala have seemingly been touring non-stop for the past two years. The downside to that is that new material becomes thin on the ground – save for the odd amazing cover version, of course. It makes sense then, that Tame Impala are planning on releasing […]

Mind Mischief remix The Field

Listen: Tame Impala – ‘Mind Mischief’ (The Field remix)

There’s something about Tame Impala’s particular brand of woozy, spaced-out psych-rock that makes them eminently remixable. The latest remix of a Lonerism track to pop up on the internet is The Field’s reworking of ‘Mind Mischief’, which will feature on the single release of the track along with a remix by Ducktails. The Field’s remix […]