Tame Impala headlining Citadel Festival (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Tame Impala were performing for Triple J’s Like A Version series.
On radio in their home city of Perth, Tame Impala have recorded a cover of Edwyn Collins‘ 90s classic A Girl Like You.
A ubiquitous nineties hit now blended up with the burgeoning Britpop-era it was released into, A Girl Like You has been given a pretty faithful take by Tame Impala, who are waving goodbye to a year which brought their fourth studio album The Slow Rush – ‘anything but superficial’, according to Live4ever’s review:
“Its languorous sprawl containing three tracks in excess of six minutes long, one of which, the wonderful mid-eighties funk of Breathe Deeper, could’ve been better placed as a climactic party finisher as opposed to being dropped into the mix when the night has barely begun.”
“If his total artistic control is in no doubt, neither is Parker’s ability to join the dots into what the old timers called a hit. Borderline sparkles with his AOR fairy dust, a twinkling house number with verses about self-discovery, while Lost In Yesterday rolls in on deep soulful Hall & Oates chords before arming itself with a waspish disco swing. Both sound completely effortless.”
