Lonerism

Tame Impala

Lonerism
Format
Audio
Publisher
Modular
Published
5 October 2012
ISBN
0602537065189

Lonerism

Tame Impala

Winner of triple j’s Album of the Year for 2012

Selected as

West Australian psych warriors Tame Impala return with their new album Lonerism. Again recorded and produced almost entirely by Kevin Parker in studios, planes, hotels and homes around the world, and mixed by the trailblazing Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips / MGMT), Lonerism’s sound is not so much reinvented as completely redrafted and stretched way, way out.

It’s a quantum leap forward for the band, the seeds of which were sown shortly after their debut album ‘Innerspeaker’ was mixed. Featuring twelve new songs, Lonerism’s most apparent advance is in its synthesizers - there’s swathes of them cutting melancosmic shapes across almost every track. There’s still the searing guitar lines, bouldering drums, free bass and of course Parker’s voice, but now there’s heavily mournful pads and sunshine lead lines from an army of analogue explorers in the mix.

Track Listing:

  1. Be Above It
  2. Endors Toi
  3. Apocalypse Dreams
  4. Mind Mischief
  5. Music To Walk Home By
  6. Why Won’t They TalK To Me?
  7. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
  8. Keep On Lying
  9. Elephant
  10. She Just Won’t Believe Me
  11. Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
  12. Sun’s Coming Up

Review

[[tame-impala-rev]]These young Perth boys blew our tiny minds with their masterful 2010 debut Innerspeaker, which created quite a splash overseas and earned them rave reviews from the likes of Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller, to name but two famous fans.

Their eagerly awaited second album takes their particular brand of spaced-out, psychedelic desert rock to epic new planes. By turns incredibly beautiful and deeply trippy, Lonerism is awash in lush guitar tones and melancholic melodies. Tame Impala are that unique band blessed with the ability to take you on a journey, so strap yourself in.


[[dec-sm.jpg]] Declan Murphy

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