Tame Impala Working On Synth-Based Album
News posted Wednesday, May 19 2010 at 01:00 PM.
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Their debut album Innerspeaker is just days away from an official release, but Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker is more excited about its follow-up.
Speaking to M+N yesterday (May 18), Parker said he’s started working on the band’s second album with their blonde mop of a drummer Jay Watson. Inspired by Todd Rundgren’s 1973 concept album A Wizard, a True Star, the pair have been demoing tracks incorporating analog synths, which Parker recently purchased on eBay. He described the new material as a “major departure”.
“On this next album, it’s going to open up completely what we can do sonically and songwriting [wise],” Parker told M+N. “It’ll be the kind of music that I felt as though I wanted to make during Innerspeaker, but I felt that it was too much of a jump. Back when I was doing Innerspeaker, I felt like I should make an album with only guitars, and use no synths, because I felt like it was a compromise to what we do. But I now know that it’s not.”
He said he hopes to have the new album recorded by the end of the year. “We’ll probably record it at home,” he said. “We’ve written a lot of stuff for it, a lot of demos, so we’re just compiling at the moment."
Innerspeaker is out through Modular on May 21. Full interview with Parker will be online soon.
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They better watch their step, or their buzzband status will be violently removed from their stiff paisley lapels.
Second album syndrome, very few bands make it through.
it looks like they're about to start working on an mmmbop-based album
They should have made their debut a double album - kill the second album syndrome thing straight away.
lovin' that they're listening to Todd!
You could hear the nazz kind of vibe in their music anyway. I doubt they personally really give a shit about their ''buzzband'' status.
fucking great call re: the nazz. spot on. i don't know how people hear cream...
i think this will be interesting, their influences and style is too good and broad to lead into generic synth-pop-psychedelia. i have complete trust in this. looking forward to hearing something different from them.
i think they will be one of those bands that constantly progresses their sound but never loses their original spark. they will be big.
really?
yeah, i think it's in there somewhere, but it's filtered through other stuff, particularly dungen.
Agreed on the Nazz comment - Nazz, esp Rundgren, were influenced massively by Cream, so not surprised that people compare TI to either of those bands.
Digging these groovers
fags. all of them.
half full glass of wine has a lot of the cream in it - harmonies, riffs and the guitar sound in particular... with the rest of their tunes i know what you mean
hfgow = 5yo
so are they already anticipating all the retro guitar band ripoff ribbing about their new album? ''hey look, we're not completely stuck in the past. we like synths too!''. or are they now moving into the 70's?
erly 70's
ah, haterz ease off: these young dudes are killer and yer all bitter twisted honkies yo
I heard their record and it's pretty fucking good. I fear they'll make an awesome synth record, too.
i think so too SPOD
I really hear a lot of Dungen in the record. A few weeks back I heard a song on JJJ I thought was Kasabian and was surprised to hear it back announced as Tame Impala.
I fear, Watson, that these guys may be the real fucking deal from what I've heard so far
They'd be better if they learned how to end their songs properly when playing live.
obvs too busy being full time stoners
Was hoping this was going to sound a bit less like cream...it doesn't