Album Review: Tame Impala Confront Time In The Slow Rush
It has been 5 years since Kevin Parker created the masterpiece, Currents, and I am shook by the route he took with The Slow Rush. I did not expect the album to be so groovy. If songs could shapes and colored, I would compare The Slow Rush to a kaleidoscope; swirling and re-forming itself into new shapes as Kevin Parker embraces something all young, growing men learn to embrace: age.
From “Patience” to “Posthumous Forgiveness,” the record feels like a funkadelic celebration of putting your big boy pants on and seeing that if you want to be happy……then you have to be happy. You have to let go of how people hurt you when you wanted them to love you, how plans never came to be as expected, and how you are not the person you want to be but, perhaps, that person was not who you should have been. WOAH! MIND-BLOWN! THE DEPTH! Yet, that is unsurprising from Tame Impala, but the power of this record is that it sings to how you need to be an adult but it plays to how freeing and fun that process can be.
Tame Impala – Lost in Yesterday (Official Video)
“Is It True” and “One More Hour” feel sexy, euphoric, and, of course, psychedelic. Still, I can honestly say I never thought a Tame Impala track could be sensual or “dancey.” They, usually, feel like a hit from a bong; entering your brain and changing the chemicals of how you think. Of course, The Slow Rush has that effect, but it feels slightly more earthed in virtue and the dance-floor; with Kevin Parker hitting high-notes that make you want time-travel to a 70’s disco on Venice Beach.
Tame Impala – Borderline (Official Audio)
Departing from Currents’ heavily synthesized canvas, Parker embraces more organic elements than ever,meshing them with electronics to travel backwards and forwards in time, often within the space of one song. I love that because time is, probably, the hardest thing anyone can face: from the loss to the gain of it. Time is so impermanent, but it is how we measure our journeys on earth, and if there is one thing Kevin Parker loves to do in an album, it is give you free journey. To Buy The Slow Rush Click Here.
