Music News - Tame Impala Announce Auckland & Wellington Concerts
24 August 2015 - 0 Comments
“Tame Impala's strafing with distorting shapes and mind bending
diversions took out the enemy's resolve to resist as they became one with
the music.” Bernard Zuel, Sydney
Morning Herald (on their Splendour
In The Grass 2015 performance)
“Parker is perhaps the most prominent member of a class of young musicians that
is creating some of today's most spectacularly catchy music by being
backward-looking and forward-thinking at the same time.” Rolling Stone(on Currents)
“In under an hour, Tame Impala's Currents sweeps you off your feet, transports
you into a psychedelic dream, and returns you as a changed person -- and
for the better.” The
Huffington Post (on Currents)
Following an epic comeback show for their Australian fans at Splendour In The Grass last
month, festival favourites, Tame Impala,
quickly reminded fans that the wait to see them return to the live stage has
been well worth it.
In the wake of this widely chronicled performance, Laneway Presents can confirm
that the global triumph will return to New Zealand for two concerts in
November following a nationwide Australian tour.
This news comes just weeks after the release of one of 2015’s most highly
anticipated album releases; the band’s third studio offering, Currents. On it, frontman, writer, performer and producer, Kevin Parker, addresses
a blindingly colourful panorama of transition in the most audacious,
adventurous fashion he’s yet to capture on record. Dense with heady
lyrical introspection, musically the most playful, bold and varied Tame Impala record to
date, Currents is Parker putting down his weapons and embracing change as the only
constant - sonically, thematically, and personally.
Tame Impala are Kevin Parker, Dominic Simper, Jay Watson, Julien Barbagello and Cam Avery.
Loosely formed in 2007 from a collection of Perth bands, with some changes
in members and configurations along the way. Tame Impala’s
first release, a self-titled EP, debuted in 2008, followed by their first
album Innerspeaker in 2010. The second, often feared but sublimely
successful long-player Lonerism was
released in 2012. They’ve been touring to support ever since.
This latest album campaign for Currents has seen these Perth-natives escalate their stature to a universal level,
accruing accolades and adulation as an international act from critics,
fellow musicians, and most importantly their ever-expanding fan base.
With headlining slots at Coachella and Governor’s Ball earlier this year,
the fervent anticipation around the album's July release was heralded with
a #1 debut on the ARIA charts and #7 on the New Zealand charts. Receiving
critical acclaim across the board, The Quietus said, “What they are, on
Currents - their third album, and the first since Lonerism brought them
deserved renown three years ago - is something fluid, delicate and magical.
They've looked upwards. They've gone forwards.” and DIY stating that
“Currents dives off into bold and optimistic new waters.”
Support for both shows will be Kody Neilson’s Silicon. A prodigiously talented
multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer, who remains resistant to any
kind of easy pigeonholing, Kody Nielson may well have concocted the purest
distillation of his hyperactive musical brain yet, in the shape of
Silicon. Created in the small hours when the energy is strong, Silicon
sends out pulses of warped, genuinely soulful, retro-futuristic
electronica that smudges the lines between human warmth and disembodied
voices from the machine.
TICKETS GO ON SALE AT 9AM ON
MONDAY, 31 AUGUST
TAME IMPALA
with support from SILICON
AUCKLAND
Tuesday, 24 November – Logan Campbell Centre
Tickets via Dash Tickets
WELLINGTON
Wednesday 25 November – Shed 6
Tickets via Ticketek
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