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Indie Album of The Month: Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Indie | Friday 28th September 2012 | Martin
Tame Impala have travelled through the ‘doors of perception’ this year and revived the ghost of Psychedelia with their second album Innerspeaker.
After disappearing into “the middle of buttfuck nowhere”, the Ausi four-piece holed up in a simple beach shack in Wave House, Injidup, to focus entirely on their music and lay down some new tracks.
4 hours South of Perth, with 180 degree views of the Indian Ocean, the band were totally isolated from the outside world. With no internet, no phone reception and no TVs, their instruments and recording equipment were the sole reminders of modern life. Extreme, yes, but the approach has worked a treat.
‘Elephant’ is a masterful lead track and shows the band have fulfilled their early promise with some blistering psych-pop. They have dragged their heavy guitar sound through a barren landscape, emerging from the desert like Jim Morrison in Wayne’s World II, full of otherworldly knowledge and insight, ready to fill Indie dancefloors from here to John o' Groats.
Psychedelic rock is a poisoned chalice for so many bands, who try and fail to reach the level of the early exponents like Pink Floyd, Mark Bolan and The Doors. But Tame Impala strike the perfect balance between the vintage sound of these 70’s psych-rock Gods but with added splices of electronica.
Words by Martin Higgins. www.mhfreelance.co.uk
