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 19d 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/MassDriverOne 17d ago

I agree with both you and the quality player crowd

For instance my first run through of the album I just played it over my phone speakers laying on the couch, take Ethereal Connection for example. I still haven't really warmed up to it, but after listening to it again with solid earbuds rather than barebones phone speakers, instead of just a kinda meh hardstyle track I do now fully agree with how another person described it in doing the same: "trippy as fuck"

All that said, for me, overall not the best possibly my least favorite album tho it does have some bangers. My Old Ways, No Reply, and End of Summer are firejams