{"title":"Tame Impala","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTame Impala Vinyl Records \u0026amp; Music Collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore Tame Impala vinyl records at UMusic Shop South Africa. Discover psychedelic music through physical releases that bring the artist’s musical identity, individual recordings and visual presentation into one collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTame Impala: the music and the story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTame Impala is the project of Australian musician Kevin Parker, whose recordings connect psychedelic rock, pop melody and detailed studio construction. Successive albums shift the balance between guitars, synthesizers and dance rhythms while keeping an inward-looking songwriting perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLonerism places a private-sounding vocal inside an expansive psychedelic environment, while Currents gives a stronger role to synthesiser texture and rhythmic pop construction. The Slow Rush develops another relationship with repetition, time and studio space. Exploring these albums together reveals Kevin Parker’s production as a form of composition, where a sound’s entrance, treatment and disappearance can carry as much emotional meaning as the lyric itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCatalogue highlights\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLonerism, Currents and The Slow Rush trace that changing balance, giving collectors three distinct album worlds rather than a single fixed sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe changes in instrumental balance make chronology a useful guide, with each album offering a different relationship between a private songwriting perspective and expansive studio construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLonerism: Explore the vinyl presentation, with product options that include gatefold packaging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Slow Rush: Explore the vinyl presentation, with product options that include a heavyweight pressing and gatefold packaging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurrents: Explore the vinyl presentation of this recording, keeping the programme and its physical presentation together.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy collect Tame Impala?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between a recognisable song and its surrounding sound world is central, with recurring textures and changes of scale giving the complete programme an atmosphere beyond the immediate hook. Vinyl gives the sleeve artwork and playing sequence a tangible place in a music collection. The visual design and the moment of placing a record on the turntable become part of returning to the music. The particular pressing or package defines the edition, so explore the individual release for its track list and stated presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore Tame Impala at UMusic Shop South Africa and choose a physical release to make part of your own music collection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tame-impala-lonerism-international-version-2lp","title":"Tame Impala - Lonerism (International Version) 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgain recorded and produced almost entirely by Kevin Parker in studios, planes, hotels and homes around the world, and mixed by the trailblazing Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips \/ MGMT), Lonerism’s sound is not so much reinvented as completely redrafted and stretched way, way out. It’s a quantum leap forward for the band, the seeds of which were sown shortly after their debut album ‘Innerspeaker’ was mixed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing twelve new songs, Lonerism’s most apparent advance is in it’s synthesizers – there’s swathes of them cutting melancosmic shapes across almost every track. There’s still the searing guitar lines, bouldering drums, free bass and of course Parker’s voice, but now there’s heavily mournful pads and sunshine lead lines from an army of analogue explorers in the mix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide A\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Be Above It\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Endors Toi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Apocolypse Dreams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide B\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Mind Mischief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Music To Walk Home By\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Why Won't They Talk To Me?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide C\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. 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