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It's not every day you come across an Australian band with the supernatural ability to blend the ecstatic early psycho/beat mist of 60s England with the Kosmici Krukki crew of the 70s, crafting a solipsistic mantra suitable for contemporary rock radio. But in the four and a half minutes of the single "Lucidity", Tame Impala achieves this precious distinction, perfect for putting on infinite repeat in your stereo headphones and waiting for something to grow. There's a magic in the noise of "Innerspeaker": an organic sense of apparent disorder, arrangements seemingly thrown together to test the pre-ambient sound transitions, only to play them again, spreading a swarm of tremolo guitars bouncing back and forth, clashing against the thunderous 'crunch' of bass and drums. Until the system explodes.
A sound spectrum roams beyond Europe, capable of synthesizing in a 40-minute mini-odyssey of antipodean hard rock and psychedelic pop how the first Stone Roses album might have sounded had they listened more to the Byrds than the Who, or what the young John Lennon might have concocted leading Amon Duul II.
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By psychopompe
The three young Australians have seen the light, reworking their sound, cloaking it in a subtle psychedelic aura, supported by Kevin Parker’s astonishingly Lennon-like voice.
An album with monstrous additive capabilities, born from a 360° vision of today’s psychedelia married to an enviable 'pop' writing. Chapeau!
