Kevin Parker Comes Into His Own: Tame Impala Live At Prospect Park
It’s been nearly a decade since Kevin Parker started crafting multi-tracked compositions in his tiny bedroom in Perth, Australia. Originally, his artistic ventures as Tame Impala didn’t amount to much more than a handful of psychedelic-inspired home-recordings uploaded to Myspace. Despite their ramshackle framework, Parker’s songs soon caught the attention of labels worldwide (including Modular Records, their current home)–and not just because his lilting falsetto bore an eerie sonic resemblance to a certain Beatle. As the sole writer, performer, and producer of Tame Impala’s recorded material–not to mention an artist influenced just as much by pop-smiths like Roxy Music as, say, the Thirteenth Floor Elevators–Parker is less a performer than a multitasking visionary, the savior of 21st-century psych-rock.