His appetite for guitar experimentation-powered by an arsenal of reverb, phaser, delay, and fuzz pedals-made his 2010 debut album, InnerSpeaker, one of the year’s standout indie releases. “The idea of doing what I’m already good at is boring because it’s always gotta be a little bit frightening.” That fear has been a powerful motivator for Parker, who started Tame Impala in 2007 from his Perth home.
“I’m the most creative when I’m uncomfortable,” Parker told Apple Music.
The brainchild of Australian musician Kevin Parker, Tame Impala serve as both a blistering and blissed-out exercise in expansion-of sound, space, and the mind. They seem set to follow in Tame Impala’s footsteps and become psychedelic heroes for a whole new generation of rock fans, and for that, they come highly recommended.Tame Impala transformed psychedelic rock-and 21st century pop-in such an impactful way that even Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Kanye couldn’t resist the band's influence. With a second album’s release in 2015 imminent and a hugely acclaimed debut single under her belt in the form of 2014’s “Shirim”, Melody’s Echo Chamber have the world of indie rock at their feet.
Thanks to Parker’s patronage and the sheer quality of the record, the self-titled album was picked up and released in the U.S by Fat Possum Records in 2012.Īlmost immediately the record enjoyed critical acclaim, gathering fawning notices by everyone from Drowned In Sound to Q Magazine, and this translated into some genuinely healthy sales for an independently released debut album, charting on the Billboard Heatseekers chart in 2013. Parker offered to produce and record the album in his recording studio in Perth, Australia and Prochet gladly accepted, recording the album in 2011 in Perth and at her grandmother’s home in the south of France. Prochet and Parker struck up a friendship together just as Prochet was making plans to record a solo album. Melody Prochet first came to prominence fronting the band My Bee’s Garden, a band who supported Kevin Parker’s band Tame Impala all over Europe in 2010.
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