Kevin Parker winds back the clock, tunes up the dancefloor and reminds us to get our arms out wide (or up high) on Deadbeat, Tame Impala’s fifth and latest full-length studio album.
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Dropping at midnight, Oct. 17, Deadbeat is the production maestro’s first Tame Impala album in five years, and the first through the Sony Music network, by way of a new deal with Columbia Records.
As previously reported, Deadbeat is inspired by the “bush doof” culture of Parker’s native Western Australia rave scene, a moment in time impressively captured on its first release, “End of Summer”.
Parker will assemble his touring band for a raft of newly-announced pan-European and U.K. concerts next year, starting April 4 at Super Bock Arena in Porto, Portugal and wrapping up May 13 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland.
He’ll get matters underway next when, when The Deadbeat Tour kicks off its North America run with a show Oct. 27 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
Deadbeat drops half a decade after The Slow Rush, from February 2020, a record that went to No. 1 on Australia’s ARIA Chart, and earned career peak positions on the Billboard 200 and Official U.K. Albums Chart UK, both at No. 3. Its predecessor, 2015’s Currents, topped the Australian chart and crashed the top 5 in the U.S. (at No. 4) and in the U.K. (No. 3), where Parker and his Tame Impala bandmates collected the Brit Award for best international group.
Earlier this year, Parker won his first Grammy Award from five career nominations, as Tame Impala collected the golden gramophone for best dance/electronic with “Neverender,” a collaboration with Gaspard Augé and Xavier De Rosnay, the French electronic music duo better known as Justice.
Deadbeat also features the previously released cuts “Loser” and “Dracula,” Tame Impala’s first and appearance on the Billboard Hot 100, on which it recently opened at No. 55. Deadbeat can be streamed in full below.
