{"id":5071,"date":"2013-07-30T22:40:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T02:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:56:53","slug":"tame-impala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5071","title":{"rendered":"Tame Impala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-31-LISTENING-Tame-Impala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-31-LISTENING-Tame-Impala.jpg\" alt=\"13-07-31 LISTENING Tame Impala\" width=\"412\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-31-LISTENING-Tame-Impala.jpg 880w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-31-LISTENING-Tame-Impala-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-31-LISTENING-Tame-Impala-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I like this band from Perth, West\u00adern Aus\u00adtralia, which pro\u00adduces a clever update of six\u00adties psy\u00adche\u00addelia.&nbsp;I pos\u00adsess their first <span class=\"caps\">EP<\/span>, and first two stu\u00addio albums, <em>Inner\u00ads\u00adpeak\u00ader<\/em><\/span> (2010) and <em>Loner\u00adism<\/em> (2011).&nbsp;The psy\u00adche\u00addel\u00adic sound is now much mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstood&nbsp;\u2014 lis\u00adten\u00aders today con\u00adfuse it with glam-rock, ear\u00adly heavy met\u00adal, and oth\u00ader trends which were dis\u00adtinct back in the six\u00adties and sev\u00aden\u00adties. They even <em>look<\/em> like psy\u00adche\u00addel\u00adic bands <em>actu\u00adal\u00adly<\/em> did, rather than the car\u00adtoon hip\u00adpies imag\u00adined by the media.&nbsp;I think this band comes much clos\u00ader to the intro\u00adspec\u00adtive, dream\u00adlike qual\u00adi\u00adty that musi\u00adcians back then achieved after drop\u00adping acid while camp\u00ading in the desert, or some such inspi\u00adra\u00adtion.&nbsp;It\u2019s a lit\u00adtle more cal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded and tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly hip, but it\u2019s at least in the same ball\u00adpark.&nbsp;There are plen\u00adty of mem\u00ado\u00adrable songs, with dis\u00adtinct mood and char\u00adac\u00adter, in their cor\u00adpus, so far: \u201cSkele\u00adton Tiger\u201d and \u201cHalf Full of Glass\u201d on the <span class=\"caps\">EP<\/span>; \u201cSoli\u00adtude Is Bliss\u201d, \u201cLucid\u00adi\u00adty\u201d, \u201cExpec\u00adta\u00adtion\u201d and \u201cWhy Won\u2019t You Make Up Your Mind?\u201d on <em>Inner\u00ads\u00adpeak\u00ader<\/em>; \u201cEle\u00adphant\u201d and \u201cFeels Like We Only Go Back\u00adwards\u201d on <em>Loner\u00adism<\/em>.&nbsp;All three records are good, but <em>Inner\u00ads\u00adpeak\u00ader<\/em> appeals to me most.&nbsp;I can\u2019t lis\u00adten to it with\u00adout feel\u00ading like I\u2019m wak\u00ading up on an emp\u00adty West\u00adern Aus\u00adtralia surf\u00ading beach, after a night of hard par\u00adty\u00ading, with a philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal twin\u00adkle in my eye.&nbsp;<em>Loner\u00adism<\/em> is gloomi\u00ader, with Aussie inno\u00adcence shift\u00ading into Euro\u00adpean artfulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this band from Perth, West\u00adern Aus\u00adtralia, which pro\u00adduces a clever update of six\u00adties psy\u00adche\u00addelia.&nbsp;I pos\u00adsess their first <span class=\"caps\">EP<\/span>, and first two stu\u00addio albums, Inner\u00ads\u00adpeak\u00ader (2010) and Loner\u00adism (2011).&nbsp;The psy\u00adche\u00addel\u00adic sound is now much mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstood&nbsp;\u2014 lis\u00adten\u00aders today con\u00adfuse&nbsp;it&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5071\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cn-listening-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7550,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/7550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}