Tame Impala Announce 'Lonerism 10 Year Anniversary Box Set'

Can you believe that Lonerism turned ten late last year? To celebrate the anniversary, Tame Impala performed the album in its entirety at the Desert Daze festival in California. 

Today, fans can pre-order a physical edition of the album to celebrate its anniversary in the form of the Lonerism 10 Year Anniversary Box Set.

The box set will contain three LPs, a 24-page booklet, unreleased Lonerism demos and never before heard demo sessions. Anniversary edition artwork was designed by Erin Knutson and Immanuel Yang, with additional photography by Matt Sav and Kevin Parker. 

A few months ago, Kevin Parker reflected on Lonerism upon the ten-year anniversary. 

His debut album recording as Tame Impala, the ARIA-nominated Innerspeaker, won Parker the APRA Award for Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year. Never one to rest on his laurels, he began working on Lonerism before Innerspeaker was released. 

Lonerism's luscious sound won Tame Impala Album of the Year awards from triple j, NME, and Rolling Stone. The album was subsequently named Best Rock Album and Album of the Year at the 2013 ARIA Awards and received a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

"Difficult to sum up what the album means to me at this point. It was a pretty special time for me making the music (it wasn’t an album yet at that point). In a way it’s when I truly discovered myself as an artist," Parker wrote on Instagram, reflecting on Lonerism's impact and legacy and his doubts at the time.

"Coming off the back of Innerspeaker I had this new sense of purpose. I had finally given myself permission to let music take over my being completely… to become totally immersed in my own world of recording music. So I had this new sense of creative freedom. 

"I felt free to be ambitious, weird, pop, experimental, whatever, and didn’t feel judged because I was finally just doing it for myself and believed in myself. For the most part anyway… of course the day came to release it and it all came crashing down and I thought the album sucked and couldn’t even imagine people enjoying it. 

"As it turns out I was wrong… the album dropped and exceeded all my expectations and my life changed massively again, and I slowly realised the music was pretty good, again, which gave me a new sense of purpose, and the cycle starts again…."

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Lonerism 10 Year Anniversary Box Set Track Listing:

Side A:
Be Above It
Endors Toi
Apocalypse Dreams

Side B:
Mind Mischief
Music To Walk Home By
Why Won’t They Talk To Me?

Side C:
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Keep On Lying
Elephant

Side D:
She Just Won’t Believe Me
Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
Sun’s Coming Up

Side E:
Retina Show (Unreleased Demo)
Sidetracked Soundtrack (Unreleased Demo)

Side F:
Assorted Sketches, 2010-2012 

Pre-order here.