Tame Impala - Lonerism
 

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Tame Impala - Lonerism
October 5 2012

Be Above It
Endors Toi
Apocalypse Dreams
Mind Mischief
Music to Wwalk Home By
Why Won't They Talk to Me?
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Keep On Lying
Elephant
She Just Won't Believe Me
Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
Sun's Coming Up

Tame Impala - Lonerism
 

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Tame Impala's new album. Rate and discuss it.

OK I'm having this one repeat, it's just too awesome. It's liek a more psychedelic version of The Beatles with a bit rockier sound to it as well. I don't even like The Beatles that much but this, oh my god I love this. 5/5, AotY material.

Chill

Their sound though, I'm in love with their sound.



Loving this track especially.

I just posted about this in Albums You Are Digging, so I'll just go ahead and emphasize what I said there...

This album is AMAZING. It takes real talent to be able to progress musically while retaining what people fell in love with in the first place...and they NAILED it.

Album of the year for me as well.

Sorry if the merge screwed up the poll...everyone can just revote 5/5.

Someone rated this 4/5? BLASPHEMY!

Either this or The Money Store is AotY for me right now. I'm gonna have a tough time choosing...

4/5 for me. Another good album from an excellent band.

Maybe I need to listen to it a few more times, but I am feeling a 7/10 at the moment. Decent album though. (voted 4/5 as I feel it will only grow on me)

HE nailed it, its a one man project.




I started a thread on this in the Album Review area.

Yeah, this has to be the album of the year for me right now. It wasn't even a grower for me really; pretty instant connection to it.

Best tracks are Mind Mischief, Nothing...Control, Elephant.

I must be missing something.

I guess so. Maybe you're not that into music that grabs one from the very beginning, I dunno. =3

It's good like I said, I just can't see where people are coming from giving it perfect scores and AOTY shouts.

I am giving it album of the year because I haven't heard something like this well...Ever.

It sounds like many psychedelic records man. It sounds like their previous album too.

If they had intended for this album to sound like something from the 60's and 70's then they failed horribly. Kevin came up with something far more fascinating in my opinion. By using the technology available to him in the contemporary world, Kevin has tapped into the progressive and experimental spirit of psychedelic rock, and not just the sound.

I'm with goofle, this is a solid album. It's just nothing that special. I probably have 10 or so albums I like more than this from 2012.

No bullshit, it's really not very good compared to any 60s/70s stuff or any current music. Boring pretty quickly but not bad. I give it a three. Perfectly average.

I think it's one of the better albums I've heard in a long long time. I've been so used to an album having on average 2-3 really great songs that I still get surprised when one of those songs on Lonerism ends and the next one is just as good.

Out of curiosity...what are you guys thinking of when you say there is better stuff going on these days?

There is?

Really?

Honestly, the only thign I might like as much as this is The Money Store.

Never said that, but it does things that the stuff from the old days couldn't do. This is coming from a fanatic of 60's music from the psych era.

New Fiona Apple
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Field Music - Plumb
Grimes - Visions
Miike Snow - Happy To You

I love 60's psych as well and still think these guys have officially move past an homage and are now making something all their own.

So...top 5 psych albums? I'm sure there's a thread for it, but since this is a psych album and we are on the subject...I'm curious.

All those albums are great...the new Yeasayer needs a few more listens to sink in for me. Field Music is good but it's different. The new Grimes is superb in the first half but then trails off while Lonerism is solid the whole way through. Miike Snow is catchy but not nearly as fulfilling.

I like Apocalypse Dreams might be the best song they have ever done. Same goes to Sun's Coming Up. And I am including all the music they did before their first album as well, which was also great.

Tame Impala [Modular Studio Session] - YouTube!

thought that album was a bit messy. Some tracks were great but overall, I prefer their previous album.

On first listen I wasn't too gone on it either, but it has far surpassed the first album for me now, which is strange because the first album defined 2010 for me, it really had an impact on me.

I think there is just much more going on in Lonerism. It took a couple listens to really click for me. Innerspeaker was definitely more immediate.

My favorite album of the year, by far. Can't stop listening. Every song has the potential to be addictive.

Exactly, Lonerism really stuck with me. I love it.

Quite the opposite for me. Lonerism was way more immediate. Innerspeaker really dragged so I never got into it. Lonerism wasn't THAT great either, but it peaked my interest way more than their debut

The song Nothing Ever Happened.... Is really starting to grow on me. I wasn't terribly gone on it before. Its strange, a lot of the songs that I was not gone on the first time I listened to the album, are in many cases now my favourite.

Umm, isn't that Deerhunter?

Tame Impala - Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control - YouTube

All I'm saying is Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control =/= Nothing Ever Happened

Just recently found a working download for this. IT TOOK ME FOREVER! But I'm super glad I finally found it because this album is fucking good. 5/5 or sure.

another insufferably stupid album from an insufferably stupid band

Took me multiple trips to local record stores/best buys to find it, but it was worth it.

I love this album. It's proggy, psychedelic pop with Beatle melodies. I'd give it a 4.5/5, but since that wasn't an option I just went with 5.