Tame Impala: Currents
Andy Gill, The Independent, 9 July 2015
THE EAGERLY-AWAITED follow-up to 2012's breakthrough Lonerism throws something of a curve-ball. Kevin Parker's recent alliances with Todd Rundgren and fellow Aussie psych-rockers Pond suggested that Currents might extend further his psychedelic excesses; but instead, it involves an unexpected move into electropop — albeit of a more textured, Seventies type, rather than brittle Eighties pop-candy.
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