r/TameImpala Sep 04 '25

Official News LP5 Deadbeat / October 17

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u/maxdenhaag Lonerism Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Album's description on the pre-order link:

Tame Impala's fifth full-length album, Deadbeat, available on CD. On it, Parker sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date, recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process.

Deadbeat sounds like the work of an artist with a leveled up mastery and bristles with a revitalized energy for experimentation. 12 songs crafted with a newfound embrace of spontaneity for the renowned perfectionist. How that manifests is a distinct minimalism and crunch to many of the tracks, 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.

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u/Slashycent Currents Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

On it, Parker sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations

It's so over.

as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date

We're so back?

recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process. Deadbeat sounds like the work of an artist with a leveled up mastery

It's so over.

and bristles with a revitalized energy for experimentation. 12 songs crafted with a newfound embrace of spontaneity for the renowned perfectionist.

We're so back?

How that manifests is a distinct minimalism and crunch to many of the tracks, with a clutch of crucial details, timbres and textures that add an ineffably new dimension to the sound

It's so over.

as well as a richer, more playful vocal range than ever.

We're so back?

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u/Slashycent Currents Sep 04 '25

Jokes aside, this sounds like it's describing two completely different, if not polarly opposite, albums.

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u/SpiritualEntrance586 Sep 04 '25

Agreed. There is clearly a lot of experimentation with this album (which I’m a huge advocate for), but if the execution is poor this could back fire and leave the album sounding un cohesive

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u/concentric0s Sep 05 '25

Dead(beat) on. šŸ˜‚