(Fiction) Perth’s disco dork returns after a four-year hiatus with an album that finds existential meaning in genre-surfing dance music
Tame Impala, AKA 34-year-old
Australian Kevin Parker, started out in 2010 as a home-recording, guitar-wielding psychedelic rocker, but 2015’s Currents cemented his metamorphosis into an arena-filling synth-psych act whose tunes are covered by
Rihanna and Arctic Monkeys. Along the way, he has collaborated with Mark Ronson,
Lady Gaga,
Kanye West and Travis Scott and now professes to be influenced more by pop songwriter ubermensch Max Martin than 60s wigouts.