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The last couple decades have been lousy with bearded musical visionaries. Yet despite all that heavy traffic, Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker has easily carved own his own unique lane. He\u2019s the Australian sonic explorer with the stretchy falsetto and plush, funky space-rock style whose studio scientist skills have landed him gigs sculpting tracks alongside some of pop\u2019s biggest names \u2014 from Rihanna (Anti) to Lady Gaga (Joanne) to Dua Lipa (last year\u2019s Radical Optimism). This year, his work with French electronic duo Justice won him his first Grammy for Best Dance\/Electronic Recording. The charm of his main project \u2014 heard most famously on his 2015 highpoint, Currents <\/a>\u2014 has been his ability to conjure grand Wall of Sound worlds you can hang out in, a place apart unto himself where Pink Floyd were an AM-bubblegum tune machine and Prince was a big My Bloody Valentine fan.<\/p>\n Parker has always seemed to amiably float along in his retro-futurist space cloud. But he\u2019s a 39-year-old dad now, and Deadbeat, his first LP since 2020\u2019s The Slow Rush<\/a>, has the feel of a guy honestly trying to pilot a reality that\u2019s a little closer to the ground. There\u2019s always been an ambivalent aftertaste to Tame Impala (their second album is called Lonerism, and its biggest song was \u2018Feels Like We Only Go Backwards\u201d), and that sense feels even more earnestly up front here.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Album opener \u201cMy Old Ways\u201d finds him alone at his piano in what sounds more like a sad basement than an expensive recording space. \u201cSo here I am once again\/Feel no good\/I must be out of excuses\/I knew I would,\u201d Parker croons, exuding a genuine sense of openhearted distress. On \u201cNo Reply,\u201d against a churning lo-fi beat and a pretty if somewhat downcast array of keyboard illuminations, he sings about staying home and watching Family Guy while his friends are all out having a good time. When he does go out on the sleek synth-bop \u201cDracula,\u201d a long night of partying only reminds how alone he is without something realer and deeper to come home to: \u201cMy friends are saying, \u2018Shut up Kevin, just get in the car\u2019\/I just wanna be right where you are.\u201d The next song is a Beck-citing strut called \u201cLoser,\u201d in which he sings, \u201cSo much for closure, I lost composure\/I get the message, I learned my lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n Parker\u2019s preternatural sense of how to spool out an elegiacally kiting melody remains wholly intact, even if the music here mostly pares down the soft-serve epics he does so well to remake his sound into what he calls \u201ca kind of a future primitive rave act.\u201d That especially comes through on mind-cleansing house hallucinations like \u201cEthereal Connection\u201d and \u201cEnd of Summer,\u201d both of which bang and burble past the seven-minute mark.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t pop majesty here too. \u201cOblivion\u201d rolls along beautifully, needing not much more than sweet keyboard squirts, a buoyantly shuffling groove, and Parker\u2019s dappled falsetto refracted around the track like sunlight through a waterfall. The smooth, moody confections \u201cObsolete\u201d and \u201cPiece of Heaven\u201d find him in an Eighties R&B bag. The latter hits an especially splendid note: It\u2019s a tender slow jam where he sings about finding solace in your messy bedroom over a bright, swooping melody, suggesting Brian Wilson under the influence of Marvin Gaye\u2019s Midnight Love. \u201cThis room is a shambles\/But I think it\u2019s fine,\u201d Parker sings.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a meaningful admission coming from a guy who often seems like a musical perfectionist. Deadbeat might often come off like an album about feeling engulfed by life. But there\u2019s plenty of hard-earned grace here, too.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last couple decades have been lousy with bearded musical visionaries. Yet despite all that heavy traffic, Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker has easily carved own his own unique lane. 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