Australian - Musician | January 20, 1986 -
When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.
Kevin Parker
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With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.
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I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.
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With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
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For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
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I'm actually in love with all of Scandinavia.
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For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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