Tame Impala

Deadbeat ★★★½

In the lead-up to Deadbeat, it was wildly uncertain what Kevin Parker was going for – the differences between the lead singles were peculiarly disparate .

The first, End of Summer , was a seven-minute techno powerhouse, devoid of any of the sort of effects-heavy guitar licks that helped cement Tame Impala as a household name in the early 2010s, and ones that still reverberate as highly influential within the psychedelic-pop movement to this day.

The second, Loser , retained some of Parker’s earlier work, mostly though, his signature vocal production techniques that portrayed him as an anxious figure.

Dracula was somewhere in between, a hook-laden, 1970s disco-inspired banger with Parker likening himself to Pablo Escobar – and, you guessed it, a vampir

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