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ALBUMOne Night/All Night - SingleJustice & Tame Impala
Albums by Tame Impala
ALBUMThe Slow RushTame Impala
ALBUMCurrentsTame Impala
ALBUMLonerismTame Impala
ALBUMInnerSpeakerTame Impala
Tame Impala's Popular Music Videos
Turn Up The Sunshine
Diana Ross & Tame Impala
Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix)
Tame Impala & Lil Yachty
New Gold (feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown) [Visualiser Video]
Gorillaz
Is It True (Lyric Video)
Tame Impala
Mind Mischief
Tame Impala
Lost In Yesterday
Tame Impala
Breathe Deeper
Tame Impala
Guilty Conscience (Tame Impala Remix)
070 Shake & Tame Impala
Elephant
Tame Impala
One Night/All Night
Justice & Tame Impala
Artist Playlists
Tame Impala Essentials
Kevin Parker's reverb-heavy indie tracks float along like a lazy, psychedelic river.
Tame Impala Video Essentials
Tame Impala: Influences
Time-travel through decades of hypnotic psych-pop explorations.
Kevin Parker: The Songwriters
His radiant hooks and richness of space extend far beyond Tame Impala.
Artist Biography
Tame Impala transformed psychedelic rock—and 21st century pop—in such an impactful way that even Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Kanye couldn’t resist the band's influence. The brainchild of Australian musician Kevin Parker, Tame Impala serve as both a blistering and blissed-out exercise in expansion—of sound, space, and the mind. “I’m the most creative when I’m uncomfortable,” Parker told Apple Music. “The idea of doing what I’m already good at is boring because it’s always gotta be a little bit frightening.” That fear has been a powerful motivator for Parker, who started Tame Impala in 2007 from his Perth home. His appetite for guitar experimentation—powered by an arsenal of reverb, phaser, delay, and fuzz pedals—made his 2010 debut album, InnerSpeaker, one of the year’s standout indie releases. On 2012’s Lonerism, he loaded up on synths, found inspiration in Todd Rundgren, and locked into woozy pop grooves made of both dreams (“Be Above It”) and nightmares (“Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”). He also got far more personal. As Parker has looked further inward, his music—and musical circle—has continued to expand outward. By the mid-2010s, he was collaborating with Mark Ronson, producing Gaga, and inspiring Rihanna (who covered “New Person, Same Old Mistakes”). But Tame Impala has remained his “sacred space,” an outlet that has allowed him to embrace funk (2015’s Currents), dance music (2020’s The Slow Rush), and all the infinite possibilities yet to be discovered.
Hometown
Perth, Australia
Genre
Alternative