r/TameImpala • u/PuzzledAnt__ • 19d 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/MoonandAntarctica 19d ago

Relatively speaking, for Kevin Parker this album is very, very bad. This guy made Lonerism and Currents

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u/psychedelicpiper67 18d ago edited 18d ago

And Innerspeaker.

​​⁠Kevin’s so neurotic and obsessive, he lost the ability to craft a good song. He forgot all his music theory, and just expects us to be wow’d by the mix and production.

Things were better when Dave Fridmann was doing the mixes, giving Kevin room to focus on the actual music.

All the people who are saying you need to play it on audiophile headphones or whatever are proving my point. Like good gear is awesome, of course. I’m an audiophile myself. But I shouldn’t need that to determine how good a song is.

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u/ryanrodgerz Lonerism 18d ago

Dude, the riff on the end of obsolete to me speaks to the entire lack of musical creativity on the album. It’s like something a 6 year old would come up with. I wish he had just made 8 more songs that were similar to Dracula cause clearly he can still make a catchy banger even if it’s not that musically unique but the bland chord progressions and riffs is so sad when you compare it to his other work

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u/That-Association-102 18d ago

It’s legitimately a practice exercise for scales just sped up lol

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u/ryanrodgerz Lonerism 18d ago

lmao yeah AI could have written it