After five long years, he has struck again. Kevin Parker, widely known as Tame Impala, has released his fifth studio album, “Deadbeat,” and the fans are going crazy.
Most of Parker’s albums have been under the genre of psychedelic pop or indie rock, but since his last studio release, “The Slow Rush,” in 2020, Parker has explored the world of house music and electronic dance music. He has released many singles and EP’s like “Neverender,” “New Gold,” and “One Night/All Night,” collaborating with DJ’s and other artists in the techno genre and even hosting pop-up DJ sets himself that have grown his popularity and made Parker a wider known artist.
In March of 2024, Tame Impala first teased “Deadbeat” by posting a picture of him in a studio to his Instagram account captioning it, “Don’t worry.” Things got more specific over the summer when Tame Impala played one of the songs on the album, later to be identified as “End Of Summer,” at a DJ set in Barcelona and his fans did not tread lightly. He then a couple of weeks later posted a photo of a bulletin board with 13 names to what people assumed would be the songs on his new album. On July 25, 2025, Parker officially released the first single, “End Of Summer,” a seven minute techno song that gave fans hope of a house-music based album. Parker eventually released two more singles, “Dracula,” and “Loser” before fully releasing the album on October 17.
Tame Impala does a great job sticking to his alternative ways with songs like “My Old Ways”, “No Reply”, and “Piece of Heaven”, while also branching out to his house-music passions with songs like “End of Summer”, “Not My World”, and “Afterthought.”
The song, “Piece Of Heaven,” has amazing background beats and music that make the song feel like it’s moving all around your head when you have headphones in. The lyrics are very relatable in talking about the euphoric feeling of finding your place, specifically your bedroom, where you can escape the chaos of the outside world.
“Obsolete” has an amazing guitar riff that follows the entire song that keeps calling you back and going listen again and again. “See You On Monday (You’re Lost)” also has amazing background music that keeps the song interesting.
While most songs on the album average to be about 4 and a half minutes long, there are two songs that stand out lasting over 7 minutes. The two songs are “End of Summer” and “Ethereal Connection.” While the songs are the longest on the album, I would argue that they have the least amount of lyrics. These songs definitely showcase Tame Impala’s new style as they build up to a climatic beat at the end for house music fans to enjoy. In fact, many of Tame Impala’s songs have less to do with the lyrics but the music behind them. That is what people love about house music, and Tame Impala has done a great job portraying that in his music.
While I think that this album is great, you have to point out that many songs on this album use very similar background tracks, making all of the songs sound very similar. I would argue it almost makes the album better if you listen to it all the way through because it sounds like one long song that can be played as background music to your daily life. Overall, I would give this album four out of five stars for lyrics and exploration of different genres, but my one dislike is the repetitiveness of each song.
