Tame Impala Announce New Album 'Deadbeat'
The first Tame Impala album in five years arrives next month.
Tame Impala's Kevin Parker (Credit: Sam Kristofski)
After recently dropping two new singles, End Of Summer and Loser, Tame Impala are keeping up the momentum by announcing a new album called Deadbeat.
Set for release on Friday, 17 October, Deadbeat marks the fifth Tame Impala album and the first full-length since the release of The Slow Rush in 2020. The Tame Impala Instagram account confirmed the album release date, with more details available on the official website.
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In July, Tame Impala dropped the track End Of Summer. The seven-minute epic pays tribute to various eras of dance music, gradually unfurls itself to reveal Tame Impala as a primal rave act, drawing from inspirations as diverse as acid house music of the ‘90s and Australia’s bush doofs.
End Of Summer also marked the first song to be released on Tame Impala’s new label home, Columbia Records.
This week, the Kevin Parker-led psychedelic music project revealed the music video for a new song, Loser, starring Stranger Things star Joe Keery. Loser finds Tame Impala returning to a more groovy, psychedelic rock sound, rather than the house-inspired music that informed the former track.
The official album webstore describes Deadbeat as “a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations” that allow Parker to share his most direct, “brain-wormy” songwriting to date.
The description adds that the album “sounds like the work of an artist with a levelled-up mastery” of music and is packed with “revitalised energy for experimentation.”
Deadbeat contains 12 songs that find Parker and the project of Tame Impala more spontaneous than striving for absolute perfection.
“How that manifests is a distinct minimalism and crunch to many of the tracks,” the description adds, “with a clutch of crucial details, timbres and textures that add an ineffably new dimension to the sound, as well as a richer, more playful vocal range than ever.”
You can pre-order the new album here.
In December, Parker will return Down Under and open for Justice on their upcoming Australian tour, where he’s set to perform DJ sets in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
Recent achievements for Parker include producing Dua Lipa’s latest album, Radical Optimism, and inventing a new synthesiser, while Tame Impala were also credited as guests on Justice’s 2024 tracks One Night/All Night and the Grammy Award-winning Neverender.
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