New Tame Impala Due Mid-2012: ‘It’s Got Lots Of Synths’
News posted Monday, February 20 2012 at 01:00 PM.
Related: Tame Impala, Pond.
It’s been two years since Tame Impala’s all-conquering Innerspeaker – it topped our Critics and Readers polls for 2010 – but according to 21-year-old drummer Jay Watson its follow-up may not be far off.
Speaking to M+N ahead of the release of Beard Wives Denim – the fourth album for his “other” band Pond – Watson said he was hoping for a new Tame Impala release in “the middle of the year”. He also backed-up claims by frontman Kevin Parker that the new material was heavily synth-based and a “major departure” from Innerspeaker. “It’s got lots of synths on it,” Watson told M+N, “but it’s got lots of everything on it. It’s got all the sort of stuff that was on the first one and a whole lot more.”
While he’s not allowed to divulge too many details about the record – “It’s Kevin’s baby,” he said – Watson is a fan of the new direction. “I really like the new Tame album ... [It] has pretty unique sort of sounds.”
Watson also spoke about the logistics of juggling several prolific outfits spawned out of the same Perth sharehouse including Tame Impala, Pond, Allbrook/Avery and Gum. “We do Pond in stints when we have time together off, but in all the other bands the music is made by [the respective artists] at home or on computers. So there’s a lot more time than it seems to have lots of bands.”
Beard Wives Denim by Pond will be out on March 2 through Sydney label Modular, who signed the band in late 2011. It was recorded over two weeks in a ramshackle farmhouse in Western Australia.
Full interview with Watson soon.
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''Synths''
Goodbye - you are the weakest link.
“It’s got lots of synths on it,”
Oh dear.
I yearn for the day an album is recorded in an impeccably decorated farmhouse.
Indeed, preferably one resplendent with Cornishware and scones fresh from the oven.
Not an overwhelming insight into the new album though is it? Having ''lots of synths on it'' can still mean so many different things...
I knew I had seen this article somewhere before!
Is it Kevin's baby cos he's the only one making the music on it, pretty much just like the first one?
Thank you Coz. A pronounced 'A Wizard, a True Star' influence would be kind of exciting...
Far out guys. He said synths, not synth-pop. It's not going to come out sounding like Cut Copy.
tame impopol
I like how the dude calls the band tame..oh the new tame record etc Yes. I think he's got it! Tame!
Its a cool track either way.
Yeah, Kevin is recording the album over in Paris. The other Impala guys are in Oz.
Nick Albrook looks a lot like a young Jane Fonda with short hair.
They're gonna play Lollapalooza.