Ninajirachi<\/a>, whose frenetic glitchy EDM serves as the uppers to Kev\u2019s recent downers. Deadbeat is a melancholic album in isolation, but live \u2013 when it is broken up by the band\u2019s previous hazy prog-rock, chunky psychedelia and airy trance tracks \u2013 it is noticeable how uncomfortably the newer songs sit with the older work. It\u2019s not just that the crowd know the older songs better \u2013 though they do sing along to the guitar solos on tracks like Elephant note-perfect, like a football chant.<\/p>\n\u2018Banger after undeniable banger\u2019 \u2026 Tame Impala in Brisbane. Photograph: Jordan Munns<\/p>\n
This is not to say that the Deadbeat tracks don\u2019t sound great live: Loser has a sinister bounce to it, the layers of My Old Ways build with tension, and Dracula, predictably, brings the house down. But the more muted songs, like Piece of Heaven, No Reply and Obsolete, fall a little flat. Post-wee, Parker ambled over to a smaller stage in the crowd and sat cross-legged on a rug to play Ethereal Connection. This interlude goes too long and goes nowhere; after a few minutes of indulging Parker lying on his back and singing to the ceiling, a huge portion of the crowd seemed to get the message and went hunting for the loos themselves.<\/p>\n
Certain older tracks, such as Elephant and Let It Happen, take on a darker industrial tone this time around, a welcome twist, almost as if a touch of Ninajirachi is seeping into Parker\u2019s efforts to make the show blend together. But it is a constant tonal ricochet: are we about to get a sad track played on the floor or bombastic, euphoric pop, complete with confetti cannons (deployed multiple times) and enough lasers to correct the sight of everyone in the arena? It is hard for even a very willing crowd to ride these shifts in mood.<\/p>\n
The two-hour show ends not on their recent mega-hit Dracula (second-to-last), but the seven-minute acid house track End of Summer. It makes for a downbeat ending for the Deadbeat tour \u2013 but it is still a night filled with banger after undeniable banger, and astonishing, eye-popping spectacle that needs to be seen to be believed.<\/p>\n
Tame Impala\u2019s Australian tour continues in Brisbane until 11 October, Melbourne 14-17 October, Sydney 19-21 October, Perth 24-25 October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a lot of firsts to be experienced on Tame Impala\u2019s Deadbeat tour. I have never seen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-922844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}