Tame Impala - Slow Rush (2019)

What tricked me into checking up this LP was the definition of Kevin Parker’s music as “Bee Gees on mushrooms”.  From what I can hear, the “mushrooms part” is less psychedelic, but more in a fluid, arty electronica run through the tasteful and attractive studio treatment. You dive into the layers of keyboards as into some multi-coloured sea. It is a danceable and rhythmic album, but somehow, melody and colour seem to overweigh the pulse, so it ends up far from “dance” or “disco” idiom. If there is a downside, it is a bit annoying to listen an album almost entirely sung in falsetto, but then, it’s the “Bee Gees part”, I guess. Also on the vocals - that vulgar use of AutoPlay on song #3 is hard to forgive. Overall impression is positive, it’s refreshing to listen to the synthesisers, for a change! The excellent and heavy “It might be time” stands out.

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