{"id":84939,"date":"2025-10-17T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:40:07","slug":"5-takeaways-from-tame-impalas-new-album-deadbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84939\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Takeaways From Tame Impala\u2019s New Album Deadbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tame Impala<\/a> were once a record collector\u2019s idea of a rock band. Then they were a rock band that was one guy and that one guy was also a record collector. 2015\u2019s Currents<\/a> took that proposition as far as it could go, and when Kevin Parker dropped \u201cEnd of Summer<\/a>\u201d as the lead single from his fifth studio album, Deadbeat<\/a>, something else became apparent: Every crate-digger eventually finds his way to the dancefloor.<\/p>\n

Deadbeat is Parker\u2019s electronic and dance album, but it\u2019s also his new father album, as his first daughter was born the year after the pre-pandemic The Slow Rush<\/a>. As such, he throws in some dadly nods to Family Guy and Pablo Escobar, while still treading familiar emotional territory for Tame Impala: jealousy, paralysis, and social anxiety. Parker digs into his psyche not necessarily through lyrics but by paying homage to the music he ostensibly loves, like Jeff Mills<\/a>\u2019 \u201cThe Bells\u201d (\u201cNot My World\u201d), the Beatles<\/a> (\u201cSee You on Monday\u201d) and, apparently, DJ Khaled<\/a> and Rihanna<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWild Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (\u201cObsolete\u201d). Here are five takeaways from the album.<\/p>\n

An Intimate, Unvarnished Opening<\/p>\n

Deadbeat opens with a demo track of Parker singing over a house piano riff. It\u2019s a meaningful gesture\u2014stripping aside the glossy varnish of Currents and The Slow Rush, conjuring the image of Parker alone in a room, surrounded by the highest of high-end recording equipment. That piano, fuzzy with room sound, reappears as a motif throughout the album. Later, on the skeevy synth-funk single \u201cLoser<\/a>,\u201d a murmured \u201cfuck\u201d wanders its way into the final mix, like the fossil record of an off-the-cuff earlier version. For an artist obsessed with craft, Parker has gotten more comfortable letting the seams show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tame Impala were once a record collector\u2019s idea of a rock band. Then they were a rock band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,5865],"class_list":{"0":"post-84939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-takeaways"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}