After the early promise of the Dee Dee Dums and the swift transition into the band that we now know as Tame Impala, with it’s self titled debut, the band has always seemed referential in it’s influences with music aficionados quick to point out exactly what song ‘this part’ sounds like, mulling through the fickle underground indie scene like a hot knife through butter and quickly becoming a memorable staple in a music economy on the slide with new bands popping up every week and no one buying records. Tame Impala will never escape the ghost of John Lennon, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, given that Tame Impala are practitioners of blissful nostalgia inducing psychedelia that swoops and swoons through a kaleidoscope of tie died sonic sunshine, they hone the energy, rather than imitate, of greats such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The La De Das, Love and The Beatles as well as more modern contemporaries, given that the sound is fresh and still full of a fair few spritely surprises.
