A New Tame Impala Album Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

The Not-So-Slow Rush

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BY Megan LaPierrePublished Feb 15, 2022

Coming off of the five-year gap between his last two albums, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker — sole-person band extraordinaire — is already working on the follow-up to 2020's The Slow Rush, and it sounds like this next offering is set to break the mould of his drawn-out breaks between releases.

In a new interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Parker revealed that he's been holed up in his studio in Fremantle, AU, and believes he will have another Tame Impala album done "sooner than what has been the pattern." Which is to say: in less than the half-decade between Currents and The Slow Rush.

"I'm always making music, that's kind of all I know how to do," he explained, adding: "There could be an apocalypse going on outside and it probably wouldn't affect it."

Parker continued: "Tame Impala is always on my mind, so I wanna do [another album] soon," as there are now "more dimensions" to how he makes music, "between producing and songwriting and everything," now that he's worked on music with the likes of Kanye West, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Travis Scott.

"But Tame Impala will always be something more special to me than anything else and the thing I put the most love into," he attested, explaining that the fun of it for him now is "working out what Tame Impala is and isn't."

"Because Tame Impala is something that I always want to keep evolving," Parker explained. "I don't have a hard border around what Tame Impala is, which is also what makes it interesting."

The musician expressed a similar sense of wanting a lesser gap ahead of the next release when Exclaim! interviewed him back in 2020, saying: "I definitely don't want to wait four years again, or five years or whatever it was."

Go on and let it happen ("Eventually," at least).

Parker recently reacted to the Wiggles' Hottest 100 Win for their cover of "Elephant," alongside plotting a North American tour with his backing band that's scheduled to hit Canada next month.

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