As a touring act, Tame Impala consists of Parker (guitar, vocals), Dominic Simper (guitar, synthesiser), Jay Watson (synthesiser, vocals, guitar), Cam Avery (bass guitar, vocals), and Julien Barbagallo (drums, vocals).
In the recording studio, Parker writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project's music. But Tame Impala has remained his “sacred space”, an outlet that has allowed him to embrace funk (2015’s Currents), dance music (2020’s The Slow Rush) and all the infinite possibilities yet to be discovered.Tame Impala is the psychedelic music project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker. By the mid-2010s, he was collaborating with Mark Ronson, producing Gaga and inspiring Rihanna (who covered “New Person, Same Old Mistakes”). As Parker has looked further inward, his music-and musical circle-has continued to expand outward. On 2012’s Lonerism, he loaded up on synths, found inspiration in Todd Rundgren and locked into woozy pop grooves made of both dreams (“Be Above It”) and nightmares (“Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”). 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. 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.
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