Currents (Tame Impala album)

Currents
Studio album by Tame Impala
Released July 18, 2015
Recorded 2013–2015
Fremantle, Western Australia[1]
Label Fiction, Interscope, Modular Recordings
Producer Kevin Parker
Tame Impala chronology

Lonerism
(2012)		 Currents
(2015)
Singles from Currents
  1. "'Cause I'm a Man"
    Released: 7 April 2015[1]

Currents is the third studio album by Tame Impala, to be released in 2015 on Interscope Records.[2] It will include "Let It Happen", released as a free download as well as the first official single, "'Cause I'm a Man", released on 7 April 2015, and "Disciples", released 29 April 2015. Parker explained that Currents is about the process of personal transformation. "It follows the progression of someone feeling like they are becoming something else. They're becoming the kind of person they thought they'd never become."[3]

Kevin Parker explains that the first track "Let It Happen" is about "finding yourself always in this world of chaos and all this stuff going on around you and always shutting it out because you don't want to be part of it. But at some point, you realise it takes more energy to shut it out than it does to let it happen and be a part of it". "Eventually" concerns "knowing that you're about to damage someone almost irreparably, and the only consolation you get is this distant hope that they’ll be alright eventually, because you know they aren't going to be now or soon." "Yes I'm Changing" is a song Parker claims he does not remember making: "A weird experience, because it was like it was someone else made the song. I had no memory of imagining it." Parker stated "Less I Know the Better" "shouldn't be on a Tame Impala album because it has this dorky, white disco funk".[4]

Album cover

Kevin Parker has said the cover art for Currents is based on a diagram of vortex shedding he remembered while trying to visualise the album's themes.[5]

Track listing

Currents
No. Title Length
1. "Let It Happen"   7:46
2. "Nangs"   1:47
3. "The Moment"   4:15
4. "Yes I'm Changing"   4:30
5. "Eventually"   5:19
6. "Gossip"   0:55
7. "The Less I Know the Better"   3:38
8. "Past Life"   3:47
9. "Disciples"   1:48
10. "'Cause I'm a Man"   4:01
11. "Reality in Motion"   4:12
12. "Love/Paranoia"   3:06
13. "New Person, Same Old Mistakes"   6:02
Total length:
 51:06

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kreps, Daniel. "Tame Impala Share Infectious Cause I'm a Man' From New LP 'Currents'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Minsker, Evan (April 4, 2015). "Tame Impala Announce New Album Currents". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ Hillyard, Kim (April 17, 2015). "Tame Impala say new song Cause I'm A Man' is 'about how weak men are'". NME. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hillyard, Kim (April 17, 2015). "Tame Impala say new song Cause I'm A Man' is 'about how weak men are'". NME. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ http://nr.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/34clpm/i_am_kevin_parker_from_tame_impala_ask_me_anything/cqtjxpd

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