Review: On 'The Slow Rush,' Tame Impala Masks Inner Turmoil With Sonic Euphoria
Kevin Parker's fourth album as the leader of Australian rock band Tame Impala comes after a five-year gap. It's music that comes wrapped in its own bubble, far from the cascading miseries on the news.
On "One More Year," the opening track of his fourth record as Tame Impala, multi-instrumentalist mastermind Kevin Parker cues up a memory from a year ago, Facebook-style. He sounds wistful as he recalls a distinct moment in a love affair: "If there was trouble in the world, we didn't know. If we had a care, it didn't show."
It's a little thing, a momentary reverie, and it's also a clue about what's going on inside : From start to finish, both on blithe party songs like "Is It True" and
