{"id":244042,"date":"2025-10-27T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:12:09","slug":"tame-impalas-10-best-songs-kevin-parkers-top-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244042\/","title":{"rendered":"Tame Impala’s 10 Best Songs: Kevin Parker’s Top Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Tame Impala<\/a> began previewing their sophomore album Lonerism in 2012, a psychedelic rock explosion in the mainstream felt almost impossible.\u00a0Innerspeaker, the 2010 debut from Kevin Parker and his fellow Aussie instrumentalists, was an enjoyable, spaced-out vision of older psychedelia made modern, but its crossover potential didn\u2019t exactly leap out of the speakers \u2014 even with cosigns from this website<\/a> and several others.<\/p>\n

Like many, I hitched myself to Tame Impala after hearing \u201cApocalypse Dreams\u201d and Lonerism\u00a0from \u2014 and this was perhaps a small hint of how broad the crossover would be \u2014 one of the metalheads I played with in second period Jazz Ensemble. Bewildered at the song\u2019s scope, immersive production, and Parker\u2019s shimmering head voice, it felt like I was finally hearing a band I\u2019d waited my entire life to find. Even back then, it absolutely tracked that the local metal community was head over heels for Parker\u2019s instrumental prowess; his reinterpretations of the classic rock canon, sometimes sounding like Lennon singing above Page, acid-washed and filtered through a kaleidoscope, were as indelible then as they are now.<\/p>\n

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But very soon, it wasn\u2019t just the hipsters or the metalheads bumping Tame Impala. It was the rock fans, the pop fans, the hip-hop heads in the midst of having their minds blown by Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean\u2019s own high concept material. Indie music had thoroughly crossed over to the mainstream, so \u201cElephant\u201d blasted behind car commercials, on the radio, in grocery stores. By the time Tame Impala returned for their still-beloved third album Currents<\/a> in 2015, they felt destined to be the biggest band of their cohort.<\/p>\n

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The rise of streaming in the mid 2010s, coupled with Parker\u2019s noted prowess in pop songwriting and production, brought Tame Impala from burgeoning rock outfit to influential vibe connoisseurs. The success of Currents and songs like \u201cThe Less I Know the Better\u201d cemented Parker\u2019s reputation as a master of mood and atmosphere, a go-to architect of immaculately-crafted vibes. But to reduce Tame Impala to background music for sunset Instagram stories would be to miss the intricate songcraft, the melancholic emotional depth, and the restless experimentation that have always defined Parker\u2019s work \u2014 even as the world caught up to him.<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0Currents, Parker has appropriately expanded outwards; somewhere along the way, it also became clearer to the world that Tame Impala really was just one guy toiling away in the studio. The Slow Rush<\/a>,\u00a0Parker\u2019s fourth effort, found him embracing a more existential tenor and accepting that, to quote \u201cIt Might Be Time,\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re not as young as you used to be.\u201d In a bit of cruel irony, his album about taking it slow, breathing deeper, and accepting that which we cannot control would arrive barely a month before the world shut down from the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

Now, Parker has resurfaced once again with\u00a0Deadbeat<\/a>, his fifth album and the most \u201cTame Impala as house music\u201d attempt yet. The album has its fair share of Tame Impala majesty, but overall, it\u2019s a bit of weightless effort; extended experiments like \u201cEnd of Summer\u201d and \u201cEthereal Connection\u201d lack the dynamism of Parker\u2019s previous work, while a lot of his lyrical motifs start and end in the same place. Luckily, the album spawned \u201cDracula,\u201d which \u2014 spoiler alert \u2014 is one of Tame Impala\u2019s finest tracks to date.<\/p>\n

Read on to see our list of Tame Impala\u2019s 10 best songs, from \u201cApocalypse Dreams\u201d to \u201cBorderline\u201d and beyond. Also, get tickets to see Tame Impala live here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Paolo Ragusa
Live Music Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Tame Impala began previewing their sophomore album Lonerism in 2012, a psychedelic rock explosion in the mainstream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-244042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}