![]() That was when I was drenched: the “Tarzans” in big rock audiences (as Parker once labelled them) get bored easily. But shorn of the amplification that transformed “Let It Happen” at the start of the set, it also brought about a lull in the action. ![]() It was between the prehistoric glam-rock stomp of Lonerism’s “Elephant”, which ended with a wild drum solo, and the smooth keyboard pulse of new song “Yes I’m Changing”, for which Parker abandoned his guitar and pedal effects to perambulate the stage with a microphone, clutched with both hands as though for dear life. ![]() The way touring drummer Jay Watson brought “Why Won’t They Talk to Me?” to the boil tonight typified the style.Ī deliberate juxtaposition at the heart of the set showed how far Parker has moved on with Currents, a top five hit in the US and UK. Back then Parker’s songs were caught between inertia and ambition, a tension expressed by the interaction of washed-out vocals, swirling layers of guitar and driving drums. Tame Impala have always been Parker’s one-man project, expanding outwards from the reveries of 2010’s InnerSpeaker and 2012’s follow-up Lonerism.
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