Tame Impala announce new album, ‘Deadbeat’
Tame Impala have announced their fifth full-length album, Deadbeat, will be released on October 17th.
Kevin Parker, the sole member of Tame Impala, has shared that Deadbeat is deeply inspired by the bush doof culture. These are electronic music festivals often held in remote bushlands, as popularised in the Western Australia rave scene. This new perspective is a means of “recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process,” a new press release suggests.
Lyrically, the record focuses on “an endless bummer, a self-deprecating fuck-up stuck in a negative feedback loop when he should have long had his shit together.”
The new album was recorded between Parker’s hometown of Fremantle and his studio, Wave House in Injidup, Western Australia, in the first half of 2025. As such, the project has had a rapid turnaround.
The LP will be available in various formats on October 17th. There will be two web store-exclusive vinyl variants on the band’s official shop. Also, an Urban Outfitters coloured vinyl and an Indie Record Store exclusive coloured vinyl will be available for fans to purchase.
Deadbeat will follow on from The Slow Rush, which was released in 2020 through Interscope Records. That project offered an optimistic exploration of self-doubt.
Far Out have covered the comeback singles closely, writing, “‘End of Summer’ was another left-turn in Parker’s sound, where he fully embraced acid house and EDM influences over the course of a warping seven-minute beast. His latest single, ‘Loser’, plods along with its hands in its pockets, too afraid to take a similar risk and dazzle fans with something that feels like it’s pushing boundaries. It’s by no means a bad song, but the squelching synth-funk unfortunately doesn’t have quite the same impact.”
Watch the new music video for ‘Loser’, featuring Stranger Things‘ Joe Keery, below.
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