Deadbeat

Fremantle, Kevin Parker’s hometown, and his Wave House studio in Injidup were where most of Deadbeat took shape. The fifth Tame Impala album was also the project’s first on Columbia Records, and Parker again wrote, produced and mixed the music himself.

Western Australia’s bush doof culture and rave scene fed into the record. The seven-minute “End of Summer” arrived in July as the first single, followed by “Loser” and “Dracula”, and the album opens with “My Old Ways”. Loren Humphrey added recording and production on three tracks, including “Obsolete”.