Lonerism
| Tame Impala
Lonerism
Lonerism is the second studio album by the Australian rock band Tame Impala, released on 5 October 2012 by Modular Recordings. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
By maximizing the use of the available technology, it taps into the progressive and experimental spirit of psychedelic rock, and not just the sound.
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NME
Tame Impala turn The Beatles' trippiest moment into a luscious floaty ode to solitary life.
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The Guardian
Tame Impala's Kevin Parker seems every inch the pie-eyed psych-rock revivalist, but his music is fresh and exciting.
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Consequence of Sound
With Lonerism, Tame Impala have doubled down on the kaleidoscopic refractions of their debut.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Kevin Parker's excellent take on psychedelic rock music – which reaches its apex on Lonerism – is as much about borrowing from his fore bearers as it is about discovering something fresh.
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Gold Flake Paint
At the end of the day, a loner with an endearing accent has authored something for the music masses.
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A.V. Club Music
The band’s latest, Lonerism . . . pulls out a masterful collage.
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Rockhaq
52 minutes of gorgeously produced music.
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The Quietus
Not bad work for a directionless layabout.
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BBC
Superbly psychedelic second set with a very British-sounding soul.
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SPIN
Parker’s little boy may be emotionally bruised, but his capacity for capturing bliss remains unblemished.
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Clash Music
Hypno-grooving at its best.
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Sputnik Music
A familiar sound with only slight renovations. Lonerism lives up to the reputation of its predecessor and more.
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Under the Radar
Parker has continued to deliver on his early promise, filtering the folk rock psychedelica of the late 60s and early 70s through an isolationist lens forged in and around the city of Perth in Western Australia.
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Bearded Gentlemen Music
Lonerism is very original and very engrossing.
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Drowned in Sound
Lonerism marks Tame Impala's arrival as a genuine force to be reckoned with, and even if at times there's a feeling Parker's trying to cram too many ideas into one piece, it's a record that will undoubtedly be used as a benchmark for guitar music of the near future.
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Louder than War
This complex structure and huge sound is testament to Parker’s long periods of self imposed house arrest creating the record. While his Lonerism may not help in social contexts, musically it is a gold mine.
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Mic
Tame Impala Creates a New Type of Listening Experience.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
To hate it really would be extraordinary.
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Paste Magazine
Lonerism expertly balances heady textures with effortless melodicism.
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LYFSTYL
Tame Impala’s recently-released album, Lonerism, forges through a psych-rock dreamscape that is held together by a foundation of clear-cut percussion.
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The Line of Best Fit
Lonerism is a real sonic feast.
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Best New Bands
Tame Impala seem to be effectively channeling a nostalgic vision of big guitar sound arena rock from the 70s, while transporting the mind to something beyond back then and the present combined.
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The Fire Note
Like a black hole this album sucks you in and then proceeds to explode like a super nova!
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All Music
One of the most impressive albums of the home-recording era while still feeling superbly refined.
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Diffuser.fm
'Lonerism' will offer you a stinky hash pipe and weird you out a little bit -- but in the best way.
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Prefix Mag
Lonerism aptly attaches itself to the austere yet lovely days of autumn.
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A Velvet Postgrad
Lonerism merges ingredients of old-school pop music with a spacedust kick, mixing both styles to concoct a stunning, widescreen sound which fizzes and glitters in all the colours of a Raymanian rainbow.
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Grateful Web
They’ve set the bar very high.
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Velocities in Music
A very impressive album all around with a great psychedelic sound.
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Puluche
Tame Impala – by which one really means the band’s creative force Kevin Parker – continues to do things their/his own very idiosyncratic way.
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Colorado Daily
Tame Impala created an excellent record that sounds retro while still moving forward, not forgetting that experimentalism is at the heart of psych rock.
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NOW Toronto
Great.
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The Music Ninja
Lonerism is that sequel you have to check out because you loved the first one so much.
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NBHAP
All in all Lonerism is more hearable for the mass, because of the pop influences Parker wanted to contribute. It’s not like Innerspeaker with all the different creation of sounds. It’s even more! It’s like you swimming in an ocean of melody trying to survive the Apocalypse Dream when the Sun’s Coming Up.
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NZ Herald
The timbres and textures can occasionally get a little incessant, flooding some of the more tender moments, but there's a great experimental spirit to Tame Impala.
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Audiophile Review
Here I am trapped in my reverb filled head. It's not a bad place to be.
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Soundblab
They play to the strengths of their debut but add even more of the feverish sound which saw them dabble with dream-pop.
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Electric Comic Book
Lonerism lets it work for the sake of including you in this mindspace that’s all Parker’s creation — one that you’re more than welcome to use for your own experience.
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Faronheit
Tame Impala have expanded and refined the core sound of their debut into a confident work of art worthy of being named one of 2012’s finest.
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The Oxford Student
Lonerism is a brilliant second album that should thrust Tame Impala to a profile they wholeheartedly deserve, and is a strong contender for album of the year.
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Beats per Minute
An engrossing spectacle.
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Supajam
A surprisingly dance floor friendly record.
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Purple Sneakers
TAME IMPALA have released an album full of new flavours and although it’s different, the band still deliver their signature psychedelic vibes in an exciting new LP that huge fans, such as myself, will fall in love with.
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Peter Hinson
Lonerism is album that is just fun to be within. It’s a thrill to fade into the sound-scape and realise that it makes the world more beautiful when you listen to it to.
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Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
Tame Impala resemble what I imagine Lennon would sound like if he had access to today’s studio technology.
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Exclaim!
There are few out there above what he has achieved with Lonerism.
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Music Feeds
Lonerism is a truly immersive experience: it blankets pop melodies in dark waves of relentless psychedelia to be both naively beautiful and subtly melancholic.
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Vandals Took the Handle
Beautiful! Australian band Tame Impala’s sophomore album is an ode to loneliness and isolation.
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No Ripcord
This album is incredibly intriguing and was executed beautifully. It’s an excellent choice for isolation or acid trips with best friends.
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The Social Lion
A cleaner taste that cannot be charged with anything else but being intensely brilliant.
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The Monitors
Music is one thing Parker obviously isn’t insecure about. Not only does he play pretty much all the instruments, but there is a palpable confidence to his musicianship.
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Pop Goes the Weasel
‘Lonerism’ is just on a different planet all together. The fact that one man wrote, performed and produced all these songs only goes to show that sometimes being on your own isn’t so depressing after all, sometimes it can be incredibly rewarding.
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Microcosmologist
This band is something special, and I hope they produce many more excellent offerings along the path set forth by these superb first two.
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The Phoenix
Tame Impala warrants a listen. Or two. Or twenty. These Aussies don’t disappoint.
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The Arts Desk
Lonerism is more than another slab of knowing record-collector rock. An organic, swirling sonic vortex, it’s based around proper, old-fashioned songs.
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It's Psychedelic Baby
Parker’s soaring vocal harmonies all seem to be treated with treacle and effects that give the impression they’re floating on a breeze from somewhere down the block, catching your attention here and there to interrupt your daily revelry and wrap your troubles in a marshmallow overcoat.
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Relix
Lonerism is an fully-realized album that is best enjoyed as a whole.
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indie30
Lonerism is a product of that tour and their rise as a band, and of Parker as a singer -songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Their rise is still ascending, and the future is bright for these young Australians.
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FBi Radio
As Lonerism is a noticeably more electronic record, it will be fascinating to see how – and if – the boys can bring moments like that to life on stage now. If they can, things could get very interesting with album number three.
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Northern Transmissions
Tame Impala go through various topics from life crises to dreams and sees them come out the other side with a great new sound.
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GCHS Mixtape
Lonerism shows Tame Impala's sound growing confident, mature, and in a way, more unique.
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Escapist Magazine
This is without a doubt the most colorful and nicely textured neo-psychedelia records I've heard in a very long time.
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Apes on Tape
Tame Impala has delivered an insatiably catchy psyche pop record that scores high on the replay value.
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Eye Choirs
Bust out your headphones and go for a walk under the glimmering moonlight while listening to ‘Lonerism’ by Tame Impala.
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The 405
Only two albums into their careers as Tame Impala, they've birthed a record on the precipice of their personal perfection.
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What Culture
I urge you to go out and buy it, and their first album, which isn't quite as mind-blowing a masterpiece, but a brilliant album nonetheless.
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Spectrum Culture
Lifeless, shapeless and forgettable.
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Black Plastic
Lonerism is that rare kind of confident and assured sophomore release: it does everything that the last one did, but better. It also sounds like Parker is more comfortable in his sound, and that enables him to add more too it.
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Scene Point Blank
It's freaking great. Get it!
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Pinpoint Music
Best record of the year? Absolutely. Any sort of regrets about my decision to eat mushrooms and open presents with my relatives? Not one bit.
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ANON Magazine
If you’re a fan of indie-rock, experimental, or just good music, this band will definitely be worth your time.
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The Crimson
Tame Impala Pairs Sharp Songwriting with Cluttered Production.
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Filter Magazine
Buckle up, and give your boss notice—you may never come back from this trip.
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Sound Opinions
Lonerism gets an enthusiastic double Buy It.
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Little By Listen
It is still very enjoyable to listen to and will still send you drifting off down that psychedelic river, wrapping you up in sounds from the 60’s and 70’s while still putting a unique blend of modern pop into every beat.
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Cherwell
At its best, totally intoxicating.
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Blinded by Sound
It's not the best record I heard in 2012 but it's among them and will send me off to investigate the prior Tame Impala output while I wait for its successor.
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Montreal Gazette
This one seems destined for cult worship, and it will only sound better as the years go by.
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The Funky Homunculus
As far as music to walk home by goes, you’d be hard-pressed to find better.
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Something You Said
Lonerism is an album well worth listening to and further ensures Tame Impala is a name that shan’t be disappearing from the vanguard of Australian music any time soon.
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TDMXT
A remarkable album that I’m able to share my soul with.
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Chunky Glasses
Parker has always been somewhat surprised by his own success, and maintains that his record company planted the first few positive reviews of his debut album. Hopefully the glowing press that Lonerism is receiving will convince him it’s not all an elaborate prank; he really is that good.
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Defending Axl Rose
To say that LONERISM is a headphones album would be the understatement of the year. Switch off the lights, pop in your ear buds, and close your eyes.
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KJHK
There’s psyc-rock influences here, for sure, and a fair dose of neo-Beatles-alia, with great synth parts.
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Qmunicate Magazine
Non-puristic Beatles fans and psychedelic fans in general should definitely give it a go!
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Tampa Bay Times
Tame Impala's Lonerism is psychedelic bliss.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Even without the drugs I'm in the Tame Impala camp, especially in the second half of this album, when it gets a little livelier and begins to play around with sampled voices.
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The Needle Drop
With a more colorful recording, bolder experiments, and more expansive jams, Australia's Tame Impala shows nothing but improvement on their sophomore effort, Lonerism.
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