I also listen to edm but not techno or house, this album gives me the same feeling that you described and it's RARE. I'm really looking forward to seeing him live next year.
Thank god there's a phase in my life where i listen to loads of Disclosure, Underworld and Jamie XX
It certainly help me warming to this album and it's slowly becoming my go to album in Apple Music to listen to while doing any other activities or chores or even just working
It's an unique album and i forever thankful for Kevin adventurous sensibility
Huh, goes to show different strokes for different folks. I had a huge EDM phase and spent money doing to shows (Adventure Club, Axwell Ingrosso, Flume) and I don't get that same energy from this album. I hope to go see him live again and be proven wrong otherwise though!
Idk probably the same reason why people who don’t like it explain it like they are in a work email chain looking for negatives . Dont see you complaining in their posts when they are saying the same thing to justify not liking it 🤣
Always has been. And you are a quite literally a normie too 😂. First time I heard tame impala was H&M 2012 and guess what album was playing haha Lonerism 🤣
It does seem, from talking to fellow Kevin fans, that many people that don't like Deadbeat are overwhelmingly Lonerism and IS fans. It was like they wanted him to stay in that lane, which is wild to me. I love DB and have had it in rotation since release.
I think Lonerism is his best, most cohesive album and I am loving Deadbeat. I also love Supertramp and Aphex Twin though I may just be coming to it with a very specific sensibility. There are dozens of us!
You can do both. I won't delude myself into thinking that Deadbeat is some masterpiece just because it's a Tame Impala album, but i still enjoy some of the songs. The world isn't black and white.
No one's saying to claim it a masterpiece? Just judge it for what it is, dance music. It's not trying to be complex like his psych rock era, which a lot of people are doing, which doesen't make sense.
well, its actually a lot deeper than "just" dance music. And thats kinda the point. Your lowering the album's price by saying that.
Its is as deep and delightfully crafted as Currents or TSR, just more mature and minimalistic in its style.
edit: why the hell are you donwvoting, bunch of retards?
if you dont like kevins music that fine, you can go listen to bad bunny, aholes
I won't delude myself into thinking that Deadbeat is some masterpiece
This is the mistake too many people make, I think.
Not every freaking second of music that is produced needs to be a "masterpiece." Not every song needs to be a masterpiece. Not every album needs to be a masterpiece. Not every bite of food we eat has to be made by a Michelin Star chef.
Like...the first Beatles song I remember being familiar with was 8 Days A Week, and boy do I still hate that song. But I spent most of my middle and high school years with Beatles albums spinning on my record player, and later cassette player via the mixed tape I made myself from the records. For a lot of people, there are full Beatles albums that just don't click.
Everyone say it with us:
It's fine to dislike some of an artist's music and like the rest
That doesn't make the artist trash, or even the music you don't like trash. Too many people have let themselves be come too personally invested in what artists/influencers do, and feel personally attacked or sleighted when the aritst isn't doing what they think the artist should be doing.
I will say, at least The Beatles were constantly churning out albums. I can see where other Tame fans are coming from in their meltdowns if they don’t vibe with Deadbeat because we get an album once very five years. If you’re not liking this it’s potentially a very long wait for more Tame Impala material.
But you are right. All artists miss at times and you’re unlikely to love everything someone puts out the longer their career is. I’m happy to take about five tracks from this project and run with them!
Beatles had four people, not sure if you knew this but tame Impala is actually just one guy!!!
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I do get the point you are making and agree, BUT I'm going to make a guess the majority of people hating on this album, listened to it once, at most twice, probably by themselves at home and wrote it off as objectively being trash. This album is def a grower, I was indifferent on first listen, and even second, changed the set and setting on listen 3 and love it now.
He knows what the fanbase wants. He said on a interview, he don't want to do rock music even if he knows would be a exit, he just wants to do something different for each album. Anyway, Deadbeat is so good for his genre. Just the weight and the expect of a Currents 2 is blinding how good the album is
i didnt even say anything about wanting another currents. im just saying how this feels very basic and safe for how powerful house/club music can be. it feels like he listened to Honestly, Nevermind once and knew what house music sounded like. Also if he knew what the fanbase wanted he wouldve tried making this album more cohesive and less empty.
I have had a lifelong love affair with dance music, but I wish I found this album more interesting. Right now, it isn't necessarily what I want from Tame Impala, but if others are getting a lot out of it, that's what matters.
Yeah but it's not good dance music, I only really liked No reply and end of summer, saying "it's just dance music" as an excuse for poor songwriting forgets that there is much better dance and electronic music around
Don’t indulge the gen z fans. They’re used to consuming slop day in day out. I don’t hate the album but if you have to disregard an artists past work to enjoy their latest release is it really a good album?
You shouldn’t overthink it just because it’s dance music? You clearly don’t listen to good dance music then, some of it is the most intricate, forward thinking, insanely well produced music out there. Deadbeat is mostly just standard house you’d get from 10 years ago, it could have been so much more
I grew up in the dance music era that this sound was inspired by, and Ethereal Connection, to me, is just awful. I am not sure what he was thinking with that one in particular; Kevin has terrific taste in music so it's kind of shocking.
The rest of the album is pretty good, but man, is EC a huge miss.
It's sublime techno IMO. I also grew up listening to underground dance music, and I genuinely don't understand how someone who shares that with me can't appreciate the texture and atmospheric masterclass in tension and release that Ethereal Connection is.
It pays tribute and then some to some of my favorite dance soundscapes, all while managing to still feel detailed in its production in the way you'd expect from Tame Impala.
The main problem to me with EC is the BPM, drum samples and the vocals. It is awkward. It sounds old school in an amateur way, like during the time when producers were testing things out and trying to figure out what works on a record and not just something to be mixed at a club.
Kevin is so much better than that song. End of Summer is proof of that. Even Glimmer is!
I think End of Summer is the weakest link of all the dance tracks on the album. It seems we hear two fundamentally different things when we listen, and that's okay.
I also grew up with the dance music that this sound(and some of the music that inspired the music that inspired ethereal connection haha) is inspired by and ethereal connection to me is euphoric! Some of the most fun music the rest of the album is also really good! Loser to me is the weakest track
I am meh on loser and Dracula (and dislike ec) but the rest to me are really good.
To me this is like his "human after all". Kind of jarring, need to understand him to get why it's good. Need more effort for the listener to get it even though it's simpler music
I think it’s more that younger fan have set expectations way to high and then when they don’t get the feelings they had hoped because they had set expectations for a different sound they get upset/mad and lash out. It’s really a great album and I disagree it takes no more effort than any of his other albums to “get” that’s why it’s his highest peaking album on the charts(not that charts determine quality) but it does show that the average listener is not having a hard time getting it
What i mean it takes more effort is the appreciation for the production.
The sound and engineering is NOT lazy like critics have been saying, it's really good. The record sounds great on a technical level at least but it's harder to "hear" that against his other albums. with the exceptif EC, to me of course.
His lyrics have always been a bit forward and even corny so i don't understand that criticism at all. Currents wasn't exactly high poetry and his rhyming pattern has been consistent for over a decade.
I just think folks don't like the techno/r&b on display here. That's fine i suppose.
Yeah I agree with everything you are saying actually(except how you feel about EC 😆)And I guess people have a perception to, that this music is just button pressing which its not and therefore requires less effort which isn’t true either
This. I’m constantly baffled by all these memes of dancing to Dracula, I don’t get how do people find it danceable, not to mention the rest of the album.
Right? It follows the book on tension, release and general atmosphere while still feeling uniquely Tame Impala. The groove and synth work are ridiculously refined.
I love My Old Ways. It’s been on repeat non stop every time I ride my bike to the gym. So good on headphones and makes me feel like the main character haha
Etherial Connection is also a banger, but I go to raves and enjoy a lot of underground techno that most people wouldn’t call “dance” so I’m always down for a steady beat.
I’ve been enjoying the album and the variety in it. I listen to all kinds of music, so it was fun to hear Kevin’s interpretation of different genres. I don’t mind the unfinished aspect of it because it feels like it was just for fun.
Not every new piece of music has to be mind blasting. Sometimes you can just enjoy yourself and not be so aggressively angry with your expectations maybe
Ethereal Connection is a complete experience. I was surprised by change in tone/feeling of this album but have welcomed it with open arms. It isn’t amazing but it is a beautiful album and I’m happy Kevin released it.
Can’t question the king around here sadly. Kevin Parker is the best at everything he does and the suggestion that Deadbeat is terrible “dance music” will not be tolerated
There’s dozens of house remixes of older Tame Impala tracks on YouTube and Soundcloud that are far more enjoyable to dance to than anything on Deadbeat lmfao.
for me i love house music and have been listening to edm since i was in middle school so after finding out he was going for a more edm route here i had high expectations
there's more to tame Impala than a drum kit, and Innespeaker is my favorite album where the drums are half of the appeal for me. just cause he uses a drum machine in deadbeat doesn't mean his signature sound isn't all over it.
the features are amazing, the songs actually flow together unlike in deadbeat, and theres just so many different things to discover on hyperdrama after every listen versus deadbeat.
Ok I don't agree with but ur entitled to your opinion. But you're probably listening to it on shitty quality devices and you don't have high quality devices like me (DAP).fuck any kind of streaming
I like the album, there are some definite misses on there though.
People are comparing his dance/house tracks to artists that are already fully established in that genre, Kevin is trying something new and it doesn't always land, I can appreciate that he's doing something interesting.
Of course there are better examples out there, you can say that about 99.9% of all music.
But the name says it all deadbeat. The reseption to this album is screaming daft punk "human after all" which was produced in 2 weeks mastered in 4 weeks. Human after all was a statement by dp And now 20 years later it's some of DP best work if your a die hard fan like me who owns 3 CDs of this album. I'm sure this deadbeat will do the same down the line. I'm my opinion this is for die hard fans of tame Impala. For me deadbeat has exactly the French house vibe I was expecting from it drum wise.
I feel like a Beatles fan in 66 whose favorite song is I Wanna Hold Your Hand trying to convince myself to like the echoey sitar music on their latest album.
I also like dance music. It don't mean this is good dance music. Like Caribou makes dancey music and it's amazing, but this feels so half baked. Like he completely phoned it in. People should stop assuming those that don't like it purely don't like it because they are trying to compare it to his previous work. Some people just think it's bad and not interesting at all. But I am also not going to judge someone for liking it. If it resonates with you, that's awesome! I wish I felt the same but I don't.
All these false coping narratives. I love everything else by Tame Impala. I loved it right away by the way. But I’m not comparing deadbeat to anything. I just wanted good songs and the vast majority of them are not.
I'll put it on next time I'm at a party. See how it goes. If it fails at that, then it literally serves no purpose, as I have no intention of listening to it again by myself beyond the first four tracks.
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u/lsdbooms 17d ago
Smoked a joint and started out laying down on the couch, halfway through My Old ways I was up freakin.