OK, after taking a lot of time to digest Currents, I gotta say that Kevin Parker has dropped another classic album. AOTY contender right now. The best musician alive at the moment, but I hesitate to call Tame Impala the best band since it really aint a band.
All his best traits as a musician are present on this album. His knack for making verses themselves as catchy as hooks. Consistently the best sounding drums in indie rock. Lots of depth and very busy production but never thrown together haphazardly or overproduced. The ability to turn phaser effects into a euphoric sonic experience.
What is blowing me away and making me sad at the same time is the mixing on this album. I say blowing me away because his music has never been mixed this good. I say making me sad because it makes me wonder if Lonerism could have been the greatest album of all time had it been mixed this well.
Gotta be honest, I'm not feeling Yes I'm Changing all that much but based on The Coli response to the song it maybe still have room to click for me. Same thing with Love Paranoia. I was not big on ANY of these songs when he released them as singles, I needed the full album to "get" them. I never thought that I'd be singing "Cause I'm a maaaaaaaannnn, wooomaaaaaaannn"......I didn't like the single at all but now I love it. Crazy.
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