{"id":20203,"date":"2025-10-28T18:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20203\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:59:34","slug":"best-moments-from-tour-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20203\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Moments From Tour Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cAs you might know, this is the first night of the tour,\u201d Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker told a buzzing, sold-out crowd at Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center on Monday night. \u201cThat means it\u2019s a pretty epic night, and there was nowhere more epic to kick this whole shit off than New York City, obviously.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat [also] means anything can happen,\u201d the Aussie psych-rocker-turned-arena-star continued. \u201cAnd by that, I mean for the better, but also anything can fall apart at any moment \u2013 just so you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tImprobably, Tame Impala has become one of modern rock\u2019s biggest live draws. But its catalog is littered with insecurity and loneliness \u2013 from 2010 breakout single \u201cSolitude Is Bliss\u201d to beloved 2012 album Lonerism to \u201cLoser,\u201d now a Hot 100 hit from the just-released new album Deadbeat \u2013 and even after headlining festivals, producing a Dua Lipa album, and winning a Grammy, Tame mastermind Kevin Parker still clearly has some imposter syndrome. <\/p>\n

\n\tFive albums in, Tame Impala now has a large enough catalog that tough setlist choices must be made; always known for lasers and confetti, its stage production is more complex than ever, with far more audio and visual components to possibly malfunction. And prior to Barclays on Monday, Tame Impala hadn\u2019t played a proper headlining show in two-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Parker \u2013 outside of a mildly worn voice he attributed during the encore to an unspecified ailment \u2013 had little to worry about. Critics haven\u2019t embraced Deadbeat in the same way as the band\u2019s past projects, but fans greeted freshly minted hits \u201cDracula\u201d and \u201cLoser\u201d nearly as rapturously as Tame standards like \u201cLet It Happen\u201d and \u201cThe Less I Know The Better.\u201d The excitement extended to other Deadbeat material (the setlist featured 10 of its 12 tracks), which the audience responded to even more than cuts from Tame\u2019s first two acclaimed albums, Innerspeaker and Lonerism. The band\u2019s stage production, meanwhile, was more elaborate than ever, while still channeling the colorful, psychedelic aesthetic that\u2019s always been its calling card.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe only one who\u2019s really judging you is yourself \u2013 nobody else,\u201d Parker sings on Innerspeaker deep cut \u201cAlter Ego,\u201d an unexpected inclusion on Monday\u2019s setlist. As the dance-oriented Deadbeat\u2018s mixed reception has proven, that\u2019s no longer quite true, at least for Parker. But the Barclays crowd on Monday was clearly in his thrall \u2013 as those at the next three shows Tame Impala has planned at the venue this week will also surely be.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are some of the best moments from Tame Impala\u2019s first Deadbeat show \u2013 and when you\u2019re done with that, here\u2019s the complete setlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard\u2018s Live Music Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 3. For tickets and more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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\n\tBy now, Tame Impala has been a Rihanna-approved, festival-headlining band for as long as it was an under-the-radar psych-rock act. Even so, the Barclays crowd on Monday night demonstrated that Parker truly is, for lack of a better word, a pop star now. The flannel-clad indie-rock set was nowhere to be found, replaced by giddy twentysomethings sporting their clubbing best. Phones went up, and stayed up, for much of the set \u2013 except during deep cuts from Parker\u2019s acclaimed first two albums, which much of the crowd met with indifference. Amid mixed reviews for Deadbeat, some critics have wondered who prefers Tame Impala\u2019s new material to its old stuff \u2013 they\u2019d have found the answer gathered at Barclays on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTame Impala performed in the round Monday night, a choice that made its set at times feel more like a jam session \u2013 in a good way \u2013 than a proper concert. And in the spirit of the dance artists Parker clearly seeks to emulate, it also blurred the boundary between artist and audience. Like those dance artists, Tame Impala continues to have one of today\u2019s most visually stunning concert offerings; the giant lighting ring it debuted at Coachella in 2019 and used while touring 2020\u2019s The Slow Rush has now been replaced by two concentric, segmented circular lighting rigs that hang above the band (alongside circularly arranged screens) and bob up and down in different formations throughout the show as lasers around the stage\u2019s perimeter flash. And longtime fans need not worry: Parker remains one of music\u2019s most enthusiastic confetti proponents.<\/p>\n

\tDeadbeat as It\u2019s Meant to Be Heard<\/p>\n

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\n\tDeadbeat\u2018s material makes more sense in a live setting. This was always likely to be the case for its most dance-oriented tracks like \u201cNot My World\u201d and \u201cEnd of Summer,\u201d which sound more tailored for a 2:00 a.m. DJ set than a Spotify rock playlist. Those electronic cuts shook the venue on Monday \u2013 but so did Deadbeat\u2018s more traditional songs, like \u201cDracula\u201d and \u201cLoser,\u201d which morphed into glammy arena-rockers.<\/p>\n

\tFinding the Through Lines<\/p>\n

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\n\tGiven the depth of Parker\u2019s catalog, it seemed possible \u2013 likely, even \u2013 that on Monday he would eschew his first two albums, Innerspeaker and Lonerism. But in addition to Lonerism singles and Tame classics \u201cElephant\u201d and \u201cFeels Like We Only Go Backwards,\u201d the band busted out Innerspeaker\u2018s \u201cAlter Ego\u201d and Lonerism\u2018s \u201cEndors Toi\u201d and \u201cApocalypse Dreams.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAs much as some like to sort Tame Impala\u2019s music into psych-rock and dance buckets, the inclusion of this earlier material demonstrated what many fans have long known: Tame\u2019s focus on groove and rhythm dates back to its earliest days, and is what set it apart from many of its rock peers in the first place. From added oomph on \u201cApocalypse\u201d and \u201cElephant\u201d to an extended, synth-heavy \u201cAlter Ego\u201d intro, Tame subtly recontextualized its oldest material for its new era, and several sequences \u2013 like following a beefed-up version of \u201cGossip,\u201d an interstitial track from 2015\u2019s Currents, with \u201cElephant\u201d and Deadbeat\u2018s \u201cAfterthought\u201d \u2013 were strikingly natural.<\/p>\n

\tTaking the Long Way to the B-Stage<\/p>\n

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\n\tHalfway through the show, as the band played the instrumental for Deadbeat track \u201cNo Reply,\u201d Parker made his way to the B-stage for a three-song miniset \u2013 but first, he made a pit stop. A cameraman followed him as he left the arena floor and made a beeline for\u2026 the bathroom. Just as he was about to relieve himself, the camera averted its gaze, zooming in on Parker\u2019s white sneakers. When Parker returned, bladder empty, he posted up on a B-stage festooned with lamps, pillows, and a small fortune\u2019s worth of synthesizers to deliver quaking renditions of Deadbeat\u2018s danciest material, \u201cEthereal Connection\u201d and \u201cNot My World.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tDuring its main set, Tame Impala didn\u2019t play its most-streamed song (Currents\u2018 \u201cThe Less I Know The Better\u201d) or Deadbeat\u2018s first single (\u201cEnd of Summer\u201d); when the band returned for an encore, its song selection was somewhat predictable. Or so it seemed. After asking the audience for its singing support, Parker, having a bit of fun, wondered aloud, \u201cCan you guess what the next song is? Who can guess what the next song is?\u201d The chords to his Grammy-winning 2024 Justice collaboration \u201cNeverender\u201d kicked in, and the audience shrieked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs you might know, this is the first night of the tour,\u201d Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker told a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5362,13379,5415,9,24,63,13348],"class_list":["post-20203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-concerts","tag-genre-rock","tag-music-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-tame-impala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}