Tame ImpalaTame Impala kicked off the release date of their latest album, Deadbeat, on Friday (17 October) by sharing their Tiny Desk Concert on NPR.
In 2020, the Australian psychedelic rockers performed for the beloved online series, albeit for its “from home” change-up during the COVID-19 pandemic. This time around, all six members, led by frontman Kevin Parker, were in the NPR offices and performed a special, all-acoustic set of four songs.
The band shared the live debut of new single Dracula, and played the previously released Deadbeat track, Loser. In addition to the new songs, in which all six band members played on acoustic guitars, classical guitars, and a ukulele, with drummer Julien Barbagallo playing percussion on the back of a guitar, the band performed two beloved older songs.
Travelling back to 2020, Tame Impala opened the set with Borderline from their 2020 album The Slow Rush, and ended the concert with a performance of the Currents track, New Person, Same Old Mistakes.
You can watch the concert below.
Tame Impala’s 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 marks the fifth Tame Impala album and the band’s first full-length since releasing The Slow Rush in 2020.
In December, Kevin 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.
In other Tame Impala news, 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.
