2LP, Reissue
Fiction Records (2014) WW
Tame Impala is a rainbow sandstorm of stoned riffage, mindbending melody and blissed out adventurism from the most isolated city in the world who echo the lighter side of Cream, Blue Cheer and Kyuss. This pressing served as the long-awaited fully distributed release of the project's 2010 debut album, Innerspeaker in North America.
Innerspeaker was Kevin Parker's chance to paint a far more extensive picture, and sure enough it redrafts the entire Tame Impala world as we knew it into an explosive, cosmic wonderland of ecstatic harmony and perfectly accessible journeys into inner space. Recorded and produced by Parker with Death In Vegas' Tim Holmes on the engineer duties, in an enormous mansion with 180 degree views of the Indian Ocean, it was then mixed in upstate New York, by renowned sonic maverick Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Flaming Lips).