Tame Impala headlining Citadel Festival 2018 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Kevin Parker is aiming to release a new Tame Impala album next year.
In an interview with Matt Wilkinson set to be broadcast on Beats 1, Parker said he would be ‘very disappointed’ if there wasn’t a follow-up to Currents by the summer of 2019. “I’d be very disappointed if we didn’t have something out by then,” he said.
“I love playing the songs live, I love playing Currents songs, I love playing Lonerism songs and everything, but I think I’m ready to play some other songs live. All the instinctual things are there.”
“I mean, my thing is that I don’t like to play unreleased songs live. I like that the first time people hear it is the kind of the recorded glory, like the premeditated thing that I’ve spent two years on, rather than being half drunk bashing it out on stage you know, hitting clanger notes and stuff.”
Tame Impala played a UK festival exclusive set at Citadel earlier this month, and were also at Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival.