A ‘Best New Music’ title from Pitchfork was just some of the praise the album received, also picking up awards for ‘album of the year’ from places like Triple J.

This all led up to the release of their debut album ‘Innerspeaker’ which was a huge success not only in their native Australia but the UK and US too. Watch video & stream the track here also: ffm.Kevin Parker bounced between a number of acts in the Perth scene before some home recordings he posted on Myspace under the name ‘Tame Impala’ earned him some label attention, eventually going on to sign a deal with Modular Recordings.Ī self-titled EP was released in 2008 which had some success in the Australian Independent charts and even garnered some radio time for singles like ‘Half Full Glass of Wine’.Īfter enlisting the help of a few other musicians including Dominic Simper on bass and Jay Watson on drums, Kevin and Tame Impala spent most of 20 touring and playing shows with the likes of The Black Keys and MGMT. when I revisited this song recently I tried to rewrite the words to reflect some understanding of WHY it isn't fair, but I'm not a smart enough writer to fit this into the song so I decided to leave the lyrics as they were when i wrote them in that amorphous, bending stretch of fuckery All proceeds from these bandcamp music & merch sales to the We Exist charity, which does vital work for the trans community in the face of ongoing failings from the current government and health service: i wrote this song around 5 years ago when I had been on a long, seemingly unmoving waiting list for 3 years with no clear end in sight.

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