Amber Flynn, Journalist

"You’d love Cowboy John. He’s just this dude, this awesome dude who rocks up at the studio every now and then. He’s the most eccentric man I’ve ever met. He just writes songs and smokes ciggies and drinks cordial with heaps of ants in it cause he says it’s good for your strength or something."

And with the promise of POND and The Growl’s Cam Avery to replace Allbrook in coming tours, there’s no chance the Tame Impala experience will be diluted one bit.

"A lot of the time when you do local gigs it’s really underground, the Aboriginal music scene, and it’s the same audience."

“These days recording albums is really easy. It’s crazy that people want to have heaps of money to record an album, ‘cause they don’t need it."

"I love heaps of bands in Perth - but with Seams I take inspiration from a bunch of American bands who in turn have a lot of tropical influences."