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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Kevin Parker's music project Tame Impala is said to be inspired by "bush doof culture and the Western Australia rave scene."
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- Record Label: Columbia Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 7 out of 15
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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Oct 17, 2025The lyrics of Deadbeat scream essential Tame Impala. Still, there is a simplicity to Deadbeat that has never been a part of the band’s repertoire, allowing Parker’s songwriting to feel new and fresh. .... These twelve songs do more than satisfy Parker’s hunger for something fresh; they establish Tame Impala as an amorphic sonic giant ready to implement their singularity into whichever genre they please.
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Oct 17, 2025An album that keeps suggesting everything isn’t as it might seem. If it’s occasionally confused, it’s also painfully honest and genuinely wracked: you leave it hoping the man who made it is OK.
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Oct 17, 2025Deadbeat starts intimate and confessional, with what might be the best opening track of the year. .... From there, the tracks flow and blend hypnotically, tied together by the piano. Sometimes a song’s coherence is sacrificed to tranceyness, but hooks keep bobbing to the surface like lava lamp bubbles.
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Oct 17, 2025By its fourth track ‘Loser’, the album’s first single, his insecurities are so hammered down to the listener – “I’m a tragedy / tryna figure my whole life out” – that it begins gets in the way of his arrangements, which so far are imaginative and varied compared to the stylistic tedium of ‘The Slow Rush’.
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Nov 24, 2025The lyrics don’t always land, and Parker’s refusal to scribble sound into every corner of his tracks is, admittedly, disappointing, considering his past creations. Regardless of these artistic choices and a few genuine blunders, what matters is that Kevin Parker still searches for truth—and occasionally finds it here in his standout songs.
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UncutNov 10, 2025Too much here feels diaphanous and directionless. [Review of the Year 2025, p.29]
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Oct 21, 2025The song ["Not My world"] goes limp long before it floats through a transition into a Four Tet-cribbing zone of spookiness awash in rubbery synths and gurgling bells. That mid-song shift is emblematic of the restlessness of much of Deadbeat, which is unable to sustain a groove.