![]() ![]() After his opening salvo, Parker follows a segue ( Nangs) with The Moment, saying, I fell in love with the sound of my heels on the wooden floor. ![]() He sounds absorbed with the world, no longer mumbling his doubts into layered effects and walls of sound. ![]() He's still the insular and self-reflective individual, but 'Currents' acts as a year zero, a document of the here and now as evident in the title. The crux of the matter is that Parker has been holding himself back artistically and personally. His mutation is complete, and he fades away mumbling, Oh, maybe I was ready all along / Oh, maybe all I wanted was the sound. The sound is his tentative step onto the dancefloor – finally, you can dance to a Tame Impala song.įor seven years, he pushed his take on psych rock as close as he could to a mainstream audience, the biggest name to appear at a time when the genre was undergoing a revival. Parker's vocals return to the mix digitised by vocoders. Time-stamped at 5:30, the drums and crunching guitars are high in the mix, interplaying with jarring stadium-sized synths. ![]() On lead single Let It Happen there's an exact moment that illustrates his point. Kevin Parker insists that his third album 'Currents' is about the process of transformation. ![]()
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