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Kevin Parker

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Kevin Richard Parker is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and DJ best known for his psychedelic rock project Tame Impala, for which he writes, performs, records and produces the music, and he has released five Tame Impala albums including Innerspeaker in 2010.

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When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never…

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I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the…

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If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but…

Candy

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If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I…

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When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music,…

Alternative music

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Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or…

Audience

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With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like…

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For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite…

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For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an…

Age

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I used to hate iPhones. Before I got an iPhone, I used to be like, 'What are you doing, sitting there on…

Hate

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Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible…

Friend

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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and…

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I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that…

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My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make…

Art

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For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop…

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One of my mottos for 'Currents' was 'Give the song what it deserves.' How would this song flourish? If the song could…

Decisions

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I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed…

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I've spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I've just forgotten about all that.…

Life

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I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that's…

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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art…

Art

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