As title states. Listened to it all, everything. I have before but its been about 4/5 years since.

For starters, my favorite LP is obviously Currents. Kinda the “peak” if there’s been when at this point of time. TSL is also an amazing album (all of them are but i feel like more modern tame feels more relatable for me)

I did discover tame through Currents so maybe because it was my first and only entrance its the sound im used to most. But!

As I’ve reviewed them prior 4/5 years ago, my opinions have changed.

InnerSpeaker

I remember this album how I left it, a very raunchy, raw emotional album. I had only a handful of these songs in my playlists just cause they’re very early stages of rock (psychedelic rock but still rock vibes) the drums are VERY apparent on this record. A lot of the rauncheyness and raw emotion comes from these BANGING drums. I love em honestly. Before I kinda just classified it hard rock, now its def more PSYRock to me. Its like sifting through mud to try to find his (now) sound that we hear present day through all these hard drums and deep bass. It shows what KP will eventually become just buried under the (then) current sound. I didnt expect to like this album as much as I had before, Jermey’s Storm, Expectations and The Bold Arrow of Time (Especially that ending jesus) is probably my favorite moment on the album as a whole, but the introduction sets up the sound very well for the LP as a whole (Desire Be Desire Go is so good). I have to be in a certain mood for most of this project for a more heavier instrumental listening, this isn’t one to just throw on and vibe to. Honestly get a heavy Beatle vibe/sound from some of these songs and his voice.

Lonerism Now this one I liked more than Innerspeaker then, and now. It’s still heavy but it’s also a LOT more PsyRock. The album feels like the cover, just a nice ass day outside, maybe some drugs, but definitely the vibes. Songs that really make this album for me, and what I think of when I do think of Lonerism, off rip; Feels Like We Only Go Backwards. Seems like this was the moment that was tame impala for the time period. Elephant, Endors Toi, and Apocalypse Dreams also are stand outs for me. But the sleeper? Why Won’t They Talk To Me? God this song feels like a rough draft for Currents. This album is a lot more enjoyable for more modern tame fans in my opinion, more so than InnerSpeaker. This album could probably be some peoples favorites I’d respect the take, I could agree in some context for its case. It’s got a lot of good songs. Even how it starts AND ends is amazing. Nothing That Has Happened So Far…’s instrumental feels like end credits to me. This could challenge TSL for #2 IMO.

Currents

Thats it. Nothing I could say could, or would have to sell you on listening to this album. Words don’t describe the album. It speaks for itself, and better than I ever could. Fuck trevor.

The Slow Rush

This album is a treat for me personally. Me and my girlfriend (3 years now) started dating when the first singles would come out, it’s like we experienced this album together and for me it’s what makes it special, but also hampers it, let me explain. Patience is a banger, even if its not on the album I consider it part of it. Borderline’s single version is better than it’s album version but seems like apple has the other version and not Spotify. Now the other singles, I wish I didnt listen to, cause when they came out I absorbed them, it was YEARS since their latest release I ate it all up. Posthumous Forgiveness is arguably a top 4 song off the album, Lost in Yesterday is also a masterpiece, It Might be Time. Theyre all fucking amazing. But it was 4 new songs for a 12 song album.. the singles released like a year before the album actually came out, we went to see Tame live in St. Augustine the whole trip felt like a dream, especially for a place that’s outlived every grandparent on earth now. It was 2019 though, first time in FL, and we enjoyed all the music they played but there was no new album we’re like fuck it maybe little after. Think we went to that concert in May, album didnt come out till like early 2020, maybe feb? feels like feb imo. But anyways, with these singles coming out and constantly played for months on end, when the album when finally released felt, hampered, incomplete? Idk, didnt feel like everything fit and when it came out I didnt give it as many replays as I had the singles. (Lesson learned for other artists Logic burned me the same way with BT3 same plan) Anyways, the new experience I had with it

One More Listen

This fucker knows how to start an album Jim. One More Year is an intro, even when first heard, was something that was so unique with the back round vocal, and the way it bleeds into Instant Destiny is perfection, very.. volumized? Is that a word? Idc it sounds IN YOUR FACE and like you’re being taken away in the same sense. The Synths of Destiny feel like an ET scene in sound Its fucking nuts. but Borderline Single version bro, the extra echo, emptiness around 1:26 and the chorus itself on S vs Album just makes it for me, the little moments, the album version is good for production, but the single with his vocals and the slow build up of the dull instrumental vs the full on albummake it for me, i hope one day spotify realizes its lacking the duality of man. KP’s build-ups are amazing, usually I hate lengthy songs, but when done correctly. Fuck is it good, thats why Posthumous is probably one of my favorites off this record, makes me feel like i’m losing my mind to finally obtaining peace in a void. Dont even get me started on Breathe Deeper. Fucking amazing start to finish, ending makes me feel like im in an extreme VR version of Pac-Man with lightsabers and blasters. Tommorw’s Dust is Mid, but for it being track 6 and first mid at the halfway mark is amazing. but god damn On Track is monumental for the album, its the segue way from One More Year half to One More Hour sticking to the theme of the album, and how Lost in Yesterday gets RIGHT BACK to the fucking sound/premise of the album, Kevin was in his bag for this shit. The way that L.I.Y transitions to Is It True, which is also one of my favorites, to It Might Be Time to Glimmer? Its just a party between these tracks, good times nothing else. Then the FINISH? You want to talk about end credits for an album!? God damn, One more year sounds like a Youtube Tame Impala Type Beat compared to this masterpiece of an outro. Idk what year Kevin was mentally when creating this album, but it sounds like he had a gun ready at his desk when he was writing/producing this album in case an Bezo or Musk A.I wanted to lunge at him. The second half of this album is what music i’d show to a deaf person who just got the ability to hear.

Conclusion

Watching kevin grow with his sound through-ought these albums is mesmerizing to say the least. He kept the raw emotion from his first debut but polished his sound to be more fluid with it. I love when albums click for you as a listener, it’s like you got a brand new pair of ears, amazing what time does for not only an album, but for the listener as a unit. InnerSpeaker will get some looks here and there, Lonerism will deff get more loops into the rotation, Currents is god, but god damn The Slow Rush…? it finally clicked for me… I had the mental blockade of the 4 singles not letting me piece the puzzle together for so long, but it’s been so long the only thing my mind remembered was the superior version of borderline. (which still doesnt make sense because the 2nd half onward of the album throughout has MULTIPLE instrumental breaks with isolated vocals that progress to a more intimidating sound as a whole, which is what Borderline initially accomplished with its fire release, the album version is the rush part of the album to me.) But i think Slow Rush isn’t battling Lonerism for #2. it’s battling Currents for #1 only time will tell. Lot of great memories with Currents. But Slow Rush had a good start a slow realization and now it’s rushing to me in all it’s glory. I love this man Kevin Parker and i’d give him the firmest handshake wearing a blazer.

What do you guys think? Care to return to any old projects? Have any projects that may need mind changing opinions on that have been time taken away from? Any albums you love more than others or tied, any new favorite songs when revisiting the discography. Side B of Currents has a STRONG hold on me, sounds like cinema, and the one song of Side B for Lonerism is slso great. Excited for Slow Rush Side B, No Choice is already a wonderful start.

Let me know!