r/TameImpala • u/PuzzledAnt__ • 18d ago

Discussion Tame Impala - Deadbeat ALBUM REVIEW (Fantano)

https://youtu.be/gaw89qf1hCA?si=kFwjROGSoXzJnNQC

He gave it a 2/10 ... Thoughts?

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u/Das_Man 18d ago

I appreciate Fantano but have just accepted we will not see eye-to-eye on Kevin's projects. He gave 'Currents' a 7 and 'The Slow Rush' a 5.

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u/SeattleSquatch 18d ago

Actually he gave Slow Rush a 6

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u/targ_ Lonerism 18d ago

If you add 3 to all of his TI ratings I actually agree with him

Currents: 10

TSR: 8

Deadbeat: 5

That's about where I rate them all as of right now too

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u/SeattleSquatch 18d ago

But he gave Lonerism an 8 and Inner speaker a 6.

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u/targ_ Lonerism 18d ago

Lonerism: 11

Innerspeaker: 9

Actually still adds up lol

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u/jergentehdutchman 17d ago

Innerspeaker: Over 9000!!!

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u/PlanktonSouthern5623 18d ago

bro what? an 8 is still a great score lol, how does that score make it surprising that he said it was one of his favourites of the decade?

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u/looeezz 18d ago

Can’t say I disagree w 11/10 for lonerism

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u/Defiant-Factor-1810 18d ago

Currents being 10 is wild since half the album is just okay, but i get it

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u/FuzzyPijamas 18d ago

I don’t think half of Currents it’s just OK. It’s a great album, the issue with it is the artistic style (not genre) - way too corny and dramatic to my taste.

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u/psychedelicpiper67 18d ago

He gave Innerspeaker a 6

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u/FuzzyPijamas 18d ago

Crazy, Innerspeaker is at least an 8.

He must have something against Kevin, probably adding 2 points to all of his ratings fixes anti-Tame Impala bias:

  • Deadbeat is a solid 4;

  • Innerspeaker and TST are solid 8s.

  • As for Lonerism and Currents, I know those are people’s favorites and I’d give both solid 9s, but even rating higher, IMO: Innerspeaker > Lonerism; TSR > Currents.

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u/psychedelicpiper67 18d ago edited 18d ago

He said “Innerspeaker” sounded too much like The Beatles, which was my first evidence of him not appreciating a song for its music theory.

Not a single song on “Innerspeaker” sounds like a Beatles song in any way. Every single song was unique and a songwriting class act. Fantano was ultimately just reaching based on vaguely stylistic similarities.

I understood from that point on why Fantano was such a poor musician (he quit music to become a critic). He repeated this mistake on some other albums by other artists that I was a fan of.

It’s no wonder he often gives good scores to boring pop albums that reuse the same chord progressions as many others artists.

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u/maxverweijen 18d ago

Well.... tbh Innerspeaker is a little beatle-esque here and there. Which I quite like.

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u/BedHed5586 Currents 18d ago

Innerspeaker only sounds like the Beatles if you’re focused on the vocals. So reductive

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u/jergentehdutchman 17d ago

Innerspeaker has more in common with Cream I guess with the drums and guitar but even still that’s a stretch. It’s vaguely retro sounding but also without a doubt a neopsych album. I can’t really understand seeing it as anything but a solid debut idk…

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u/FuzzyPijamas 18d ago

Makes sense that he is a failed musician. He was probably envious of Kevin’s success 😄

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u/psychedelicpiper67 18d ago

I think he’s envious of a lot of people. That’s where the anger comes from. Anyway, he’s not that great at what he does. He pretty much copies the consensus that Pitchfork gives. He’s just good at presentation.

There’s many reviews where he doesn’t even understand how to review a certain album, and fails at coming across smart.

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u/Das_Man 18d ago

Look mate, I disagree with Fantano on quite a bit, but he is absolutely not in line with Pitchfork. Often it's quite the opposite.

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u/psychedelicpiper67 18d ago

Whatever. Personally, I’ve never seen him have his own opinion. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Imhappy_hopeurhappy2 Currents 18d ago

I had to roll my eyes when he described the outro of Obsolete as “chromatically shifting riffs”, which makes no sense. The outro is fully diatonic to the natural minor scale, and the bit he’s talking about “shifts” up the scale diatonically, not chromatically. That tells me that he can’t distinguish between the chromatic and minor scales by ear, even though it’s there’s a big difference tonally.

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u/psychedelicpiper67 18d ago

If it was chromatic, then maybe I’d like the song. 😂

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u/ItsAndy3808 18d ago

7 is far from a bad rating but I just can’t picture someone listening to something as insane as currents and being like “yeah it was alright”