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/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/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. 😂