Deadbeat
A polarizing pivot into West Australian rave culture. Kevin Parker wraps his signature melancholic falsetto in driving four-on-the-floor house beats and neon synths.
October 17, 2025 · Columbia
A polarizing pivot into West Australian rave culture. Kevin Parker wraps his signature melancholic falsetto in driving four-on-the-floor house beats and neon synths.
October 17, 2025 · Columbia
Thick, humid air carries the thud of a distant bush rave, bleeding into neon-lit house grooves. Sweaty four-on-the-floor beats pull you onto a dusty dancefloor while dizzying, sun-warped synths spin overhead. Underneath the relentless, driving bass, a lonely falsetto floats like smoke, capturing the bittersweet ache of a party's final hours.
“If the thought of an outback rave might bring to mind a frantic, lawless bacchanal, the vibes on Deadbeat offer a more mesmerizing experience, one that dance escapists can easily get lost in”Read review
“The psych hermit-turned-pop hitmaker turns to dance music – and openly embraces his introversion and insecurities”Read review
“Kevin Parker’s long-awaited fifth studio LP fulfills the promise of poppier, techno-focused sounds, but rarely fuses the two, leaving you wishing for fewer hooks and more trance”Read review
“Kevin Parker’s latest offering is patchy and overly synthetic, failing to hit the heights of his generation defining previous albums”Read review
“Kevin Parker’s latest record begins with what might be the best opening track of the year, as he makes mountains out of social awkwardness molehills”Read review
“Australian indie’s breakout star takes a dancefloor diversion, but amid the four-four fun are fears about fame’s effect on his domestic life”Read review
“On Deadbeat, his first album in five years, Kevin Parker mixes frazzled moods and plush beats”Read review
“Deadbeat is Tame Impala’s electronic dance and house record, and it wants listeners to consider the multi-talented Grammy winner a loser”
“Though he is still the mastermind behind Tame Impala, the Aussie composer is starting to sound more and more like one person in a studio — a fact that used to blow people’s minds”Read review
“Kevin Parker takes a left turn onto the dancefloor and sounds quite lost. What could’ve been an interesting experiment is instead full of hollow songs and half-measures”Read review
“Deadbeat sounds and feels like an unfinished project, confident, even novel compared to Tame Impala’s earliest EPs, but still somehow incomplete”Read review
“The album finds Kevin Parker still selling himself as a something of an underachiever”Read review
How does Deadbeat sound next to the rest of Tame Impala's catalogue?
The record leans heavily into a bittersweet quality, where the euphoric rush of the dancefloor constantly wars with a creeping, late-night panic.
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