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FAV TRACKS: LET IT HAPPEN, THE MOMENT, EVENTUALLY, LOVE / PARANOIA
LEAST FAV TRACK: DISCIPLES
TAME IMPALA – CURRENTS / 2015 / INTERSCOPE / PSYCH POP, SYNTH POP, NEO-PSYCH, DREAM POP, NEO-NEW WAVE
7/10
Y’all know this is just my opinion, right?
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One of my favorite albums of all time TBH
My favorite songs on the album is, taxi’s here, the less I know the better, list of people (to try and forget), reality in motion, love/paranoia, the moment, reality in motion (gum remix), and last but not least eventually. My god they’re all such good songs and I actually found out about them because of Rihanna’s cover to their song -New person.
‘Cause I’m a Man is the album’s bear track. It betrays the 70s while subverting the pain of dry buggery.
Boy did this review age badly lmao…. currents is a masterpiece and not even getting an 8???
LIL NEEDLE BE BLOODIN SON I KNOW YOU BOOLIN WITH SIX NINE
Light 7?! The song The Less I Know the Better is a masterpiece, but Let it Happen is the musical equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. Lonerism was fantastic, but Currents changed my perspective about what music could be forever and it requires multiple listens to truly appreciate it (with some high quality headphones). “Disappointed in this review” would be an understatement.
“What Kevin Parker and company deliver on this album…” Ah… Have you seen the album credits?
No yellow shirt wtf
I hate to be that cringy overly-sensitive Tame Impala fan but I feel like he didn’t give Let It Happen enough credit.
Extremely disagree that the album is flawed… also his voice in my opinion is one of the things that makes him unique and by all means is not unbearable to listen to as you say it is…
Best Tame Impala album.
I didn’t know Anthony was a blood
Thanks for the nuanced perspectives here. Seems like you really see the things Kevin Parker was going for in the album… it’s not all about the way something is delivered as much as the underlying intentions behind it… Really nice review here man.
*I D O N T L I K E T H I N G S C H A N G I N G*
There is no Kevin Parker and company, it’s just Kevin Parker, it always has been
that changes thing was funny as hell.
Probably his worst review
Travis Scott
For me it would be a 10 if Past Life wasn’t on it. But it’s a solid 9. Definitely in my top 5
I agree his singing is bad but it isn’t as bad as you make it out to be, you drag down the score of this record over a small personal gripe about indie bands. The vocals are fine, suit the feel of the album, compliment the tracks. This album is an 8/9 not a light 7.
What a terrible review. Your criticisms almost directly contradict your compliments while your criticisms of his vocals are laughable in light of some of your other reviews. Giving Death Grips 10/10, yet shitting out a 6-7 for this masterpiece that Kevin ever so honestly poured his heart into. This album focuses on introspection and change, while your beloved Death Grips literally incoherently yell while beating instruments like a thousand monkeys hammering away at typewriters until they get a beat every once in awhile.
Your taste is trash and it’s become infuriatingly apparent. Try to listen more than just once and you might be able to appreciate this album.
Ha! You’re the guy we all know that never quite made it out of their mom & dad’s basement. lol
Tame impala isn’t a band
Only disagreement is I’d give it a 9 instead of a 7… perhaps as time has passed you’d agree with me as the record has more time to settle 🙂 took me a while to digest tame impala. It was one of my first exposures to more electronic styled music. Now, with more exposure, I’ve become a die hard advocate of any and all techniques which may enhance the sonic quality of a musical piece. I think that’s what rock roll was doing in the 50s and 60s with distortion, grit, etc. Now we just have more ways of enhancing sound, and the new frontier in “rock n roll” (or simply modern pop) is whatever an artist can do with the tools at our current disposal (mainly electronics). I use the term rock n roll loosely here, as it was just the manifestation of the powerful, youthful music in its time, just as Jazz was in its time, hip hop was in its time, etc… and these genres never truly die, they just get recycled in new ways. Thanks again for the awesome perspectives and insights. Subscribed!
I know this is a positive review, but I truly cannot comprehend the mind of a person who thinks this is anything less than an 8.
I honestly feel this is my favorite album of the 2010’s
this album never gets old
Really love Currents. When I listen to music with lyrics I generally don’t pay attention to words, it’s nothing more than another instrument to me adding onto the grand sound. It doesn’t matter that he sings about completely bullshit because it just sounds aesthetically nice. I usually prefer instrumental music over sang music but this album really does the intrumental area a good full job rather than many modern music where you can visibly hear silent cuts cuts there are so minimal instruments being used. Currents is bae
I still prefer the soaring delays and psychedelic boom of Innerspeaker and Lonerism to his recent work, but this will only help Kevin Parker evolve as a Musician, and though this album has been a bit more pop, overall it’s still been good.
I would dig a beatles cover band for the indie generation
the bass line in “the less i know the better” is god’s work
“I have an issue with this album” I love you so much but I hate you so much
I LOVE Tame Impala