Tame Impala by Alex Haygarth
Tame Impala performed the album in full at Desert Daze last year.
Tamp Impala will release a 10th anniversary box-set version of their Lonerism album on May 26th.
A 24-page booklet, unreleased demos, demo sessions and new artwork are all in the boxset as Kevin Parker reflects on a record which, after its critically lauded predecessor Innerspeaker, added groundwork for the US commercial breakthrough of 2015’s Currents.
“It’s difficult to sum up what the album means to me at this point,” Parker has written on social media.
“It was a pretty special time making the music for me. In a way, it’s when I truly discovered myself as an artist.”
“Coming off the back of Innerspeaker I had this new sense of purpose…calling…whatever you want to call it. I had finally given myself permission to let music take over my being completely…to become totally immersed in my own world of recording music.”
“So I had this new sense of creative freedom. I felt free to be ambitious, weird, pop, experimental, whatever, and didn’t feel judged because I was finally just doing it for myself and believed in myself. For the most part anyway.”
