Tame Impala
Innerspeaker
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed 2021 2LP Reissue Housed In A Gatefold Jacket. “The Limpid Lysergic Swirls And Squalling Fuzz-Toned Riffs That Populate Tame Impala's Debut Clearly Owe A Hefty, Heartfelt Debt To The Hazy Churn Of Late-'60s/Early-'70s Psych Rock, But The Members Of This Perth Threesome Are Hardly Strict Revivalists. In Comparison To Their Similarly Inspired Contemporaries, They Chart A Course Somewhere Between Dungen's Lovingly Meticulous Replication Of Their Chosen Style And Malachai's Deconstructive, Electronically Enabled Pastiche Of Same, Deftly Skirting The Potential For Parodic Excess That Comes With Either Extreme. Balancing An Obvious Reverence For Their Sonic. The Album Frequently Feels So Sonically Massive, So Thick With Ringing Guitars, Walls Of Effects, And Tremendous, Reverberating Drums, That It's Hard To Believe It's The Work Of A Mere Threesome. It's Only Infrequently That Individual Songs Manage To Stand Out From The Surrounding Fluid, Atmospheric Haze -- Typically When The Band Decides To Leave Its Hooks A Bit Of Space To Breathe, As On The Chunky, Chugging Closer "I Don't Really Mind" Or The Crisp, Snakily Phased Guitar Lick Cementing The Deliciously Poppy "Solitude Is Bliss." But The Dearth Of Standout Tracks Here Hardly Feels Like An Issue -- Indeed, Innerspeaker Coasts So Beautifully On Its Blissful, Billowing Waves Of Sound That Readily Discernible Hooks Almost Seem Like Gratuitous Distractions.” K. Ross Hoffman, AMG.