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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, 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, 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, 2025His thoughtful pacing doles out thrilling moments worth waiting for, while the slower segments allow for the energy to build again.
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Oct 17, 2025Parker’s preternatural sense of how to spool out an elegiacally kiting melody remains wholly intact, even if the music here mostly pares down the soft-serve epics he does so well to remake his sound into what he calls “a kind of a future primitive rave act.”
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Oct 20, 2025It’s a bold sonic reinvention, and the new direction certainly adds some dynamism to Tame Impala’s sound. But Parker’s ambitions are slightly mismatched. .... Far too often on Deadbeat, the songs gesture toward emotional depth without ever fully committing to the messiness required to reach it.
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Oct 29, 2025There’s no denying Deadbeat’s slick production and delightful details, as in the refreshingly raw demo that starts album opener “My Old Ways.” But Deadbeat sounds and feels like an unfinished project, confident, even novel compared to Tame Impala’s earliest EPs, but still somehow incomplete.