Lives
TAME IMPALA
Wave House, Yallingup, Australia, April 21
Soleil-tude is bliss! Kevin Parker and co revisit their debut LP in front of a spectacular sunset backdrop
Dusk brothers: Tame Impala at Wave House studio
BEFORE the pandemic scuppered all touring plans, Tame Impala’s concerts had scaled up to become laserequipped spectacles of Floydian proportions. Even so, it would be hard to beat the gobsmacking lightshow provided here by the sun as it sinks into the Indian Ocean behind Kevin Parker through the windows of his Wave House studio Perched above a stunning strip of coastline a few hours south of Perth, this is where a then 23-yearold Parker came to record Tame Impala’s debut album Innerspeaker in 2009. Tonight, he’s performing the album from start to finish to mark its belated 10th anniversary and the release of a four-LP deep dive that details how he first forged his band’s trademark synthesis of crystalline psych-rock and sinewy grooves.