Tame Impala - Lonerism

Anyone else like their first album, Innerspeaker? I listened to the shit out of it last summer and the summer before that. Saw them live, highly enjoyable. Psyched about this new one.This new song is quite good.

http://pitchfork.com...t&utm_name=news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQH2Kq1QXaI

I'm intrigued. I have innerspeaker. Good album.

The one thing about these guys that bugs me a touch is that they sound like if Dungen wrote lyrics in English. I guess there are LOTS of worse bands you could sound like tho.

nice

Yup Innerspeaker is great and from the sounds of Apocalypse Dreams this follow up could be even better.

They do a really good job with the old school sounding production, while still kinda sounding clean and polished in a way. I wish there was more information out there about the way they went about getting that sound.

Sounds decent, looking forward to the album. I like Innerspeaker, my only complaint is that it never gets better than the first track.

I didn't really like that new Apocalypse dreams track at first. It isn't the single being pushed with the new album so I will wait to see how that song is, titled 'Elephant'. I always like that its just the one guy playing all the instruments on the album.

I've seen them about 3 times and they always bring a good show. Anyone curious about this band should seek out their demos on the Tame Impala tumblr, they are out of control.

I saw them back in fall 2010 in lawrence kansas and then venue's PA system wasn't working for the vocals or something so they just jammed instead. It sucked because they only played one of their actual songs (the instrumental) and just jammed for 30-45 minutes.

I loved innerspeaker and I'm pumped for this album

  On 7/11/2012 at 2:29 AM, keppj0nes said:

Anyone curious about this band should seek out their demos on the Tame Impala tumblr, they are out of control.

Check out Pond as well; they consist of a few members of Tame Impala. And if you can, Mink Mussel Creek too (though they might be a bit hard to track down outside of Perth).

  On 7/11/2012 at 1:18 AM, sidewinder said:

Sounds decent, looking forward to the album. I like Innerspeaker, my only complaint is that it never gets better than the first track.

The whole album is pretty groovy. My favorite song is Alter Ego, the opener is really good though.

  On 7/11/2012 at 2:29 AM, keppj0nes said:

I always like that its just the one guy playing all the instruments on the album.

???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMBeO9BUD4

http://www.discogs.c...release/2302950

He did all vocals/guitar/bass/drums on 7 of the 11 tracks here brah. Read their interviews, the band members you see are just his live band. The EP and demos were 100% solo

There was a time when i only listened to Innerspeaker for a few weeks. I thought it'd go on forever but then i just got bored of the LP.

I'd rather just listen to Dungen

Uhh yeah I guess the live singer/guitarist does do 99% of all the writing and recording of all the instrumenhts, I thought that was just for the first demo, especially since they have behind the scenes of what I thought was them recording the album and they are all at the beach house studio.

Anyway I've really fallen in love with all of their songs. I've never been the hugest fan of 60s and 70s space/psychedelic/prog/jam rock but I really enjoy their tunes, maybe I'm ready to start really getting into some older classic space rock bands.

Definitely check out Eloy if you want stuff on the more space/prog side of things. They got really good in the early 80s but their 70s output is pretty great too. Albums to try: Ocean, Colours or Planets.

  On 7/17/2012 at 5:53 AM, modey said:

Definitely check out Eloy if you want stuff on the more space/prog side of things. They got really good in the early 80s but their 70s output is pretty great too. Albums to try: Ocean, Colours or Planets.

I haven't heard Eloy's 80s output but I love 74's Floating first and foremost, but also Inside from 73 and Power and the Passion from 75.

Along those lines, Khan's Space Shanty from 72 is fantastic.

I love Innerspeaker, can't wait for that new LP.

  On 7/10/2012 at 11:31 PM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

They do a really good job with the old school sounding production, while still kinda sounding clean and polished in a way. I wish there was more information out there about the way they went about getting that sound.

Simple answer : Dave Fridmann does the mix. You can here his engineering/mixing work on Flaming Lips's records too, he's quite a studio magician.

i love Innerspeaker, i'm curious 4 this new album... i'll buy it if it's a good album yet...

elephant is awesome, wow, just hearing about these guys now....

stream:

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/30/161354876/first-listen-tame-impala-lonerism

Is that not terrible? Who like this new album?

i love it.

Ah... Only U?

I haven't listened to it yet, I'll impatiently wait till I can buy it. I'm 99% sure I'll love it anyway :)

its mostly a good album, i like that there are more textures & fun production tricks than the first album which was too samey in my opinion making it hard to listen to all at once.

they still sound a lot like the Aerovons.