Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • UNCUT

    TAME IMPALA

    Jan 16, 2020 5 minutes

    INTERSCOSE

    THE importance of making transient moments count was already a recurring theme in Tame Impala’s music before Kevin Parker experienced a rather dramatic reminder two years ago. At the beginning of a week-long recording session in a rented apartment in Malibu in November 2018, he was forced to flee as wildfires swept through the area, leaving him just enough time to grab a laptop full of mixes and his beloved Hofner bass and leave before tens of thousands of dollars of equipment went up in smoke.

    Parker has taken pains not to compare his relatively modest brush with disaster with the far graver examples of loss and devastation experienced by so many others due to the fires in California, or back home in Australia; but the incident nevertheless

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from UNCUT

    UNCUT2 min read
    Limited Time Offer
    UNCUT is a place where readers the world over can share our passion for the finest sounds of the past 60 years – old and new, beloved and obscure. Each issue is packed full of revelatory encounters with our greatest heroes, trailblazers and newcomers
    UNCUT4 min read
    Q&A
    You’ve crossed musical paths with Beth several times over the years. How did you begin working with her on Lives Outgrown? I have known Beth for many years, since she came down for a couple of sessions for the [post-Talk Talk] Orang albums, pre-Porti
    UNCUT2 min read
    “I Used To Call Him Old Gilmour’s Almanac”
    “IT’S getting on for 40 years since I first worked with David in Pink Floyd. My first bonding moment with him was in a hotel room in Philadelphia, when we sat on a bed and played ‘I Can’t Breathe Anymore’ from his first solo album. Getting to know ‘T

    Related Books & Audiobooks