Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker explains why he revised ‘Borderline’ for ‘The Slow Rush’

Tame Impala maestro Kevin Parker has extended his exclusive songwriter agreement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to cover global representation of his future works.The multihyphenate Western Australian artist originally signed with the music publishing giant for representation in Australia back in 2009, ahead of Tame Impala’s debut album release InnerSpeaker.Parker’s career has been on the rise ever since.

Tame Impala maestro Kevin Parker has extended his exclusive songwriter agreement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to cover global representation of his future works.

Tame Impala's The Slow Rush becomes the band's first No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart, as well as its top-charting entry on the Billboard 200, where it debuts at No.

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Parker did add that the Arctic Monkeys frontman "can't play drums as good as me"

Tame Impala nab a second No. 1 in Australia with The Slow Rush (Island/Universal), while The Weeknd enters a fifth week at the summit of the national singles chart with “Blinding Lights” (Republic/Universal) and Billie Eilish cuts another slice of chart history. Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala bowed at the top of the national albums survey in 2015

Inside of The Slow Rush, there are many different markers of time. Tame Impala principal Kevin Parker has often written about how time moves—its inexorable march, its nostalgic allure, the feeling of being inside and outside its current. But his project’s fourth album really digs into the idea, as its paradoxical title implies. Parker plays with tempo and duration to make an album that exists both in the past and the present, moving quickly and strolling along at the same time.

Tame Impala just returned with The Slow Rush, and it finds the band’s architect Kevin Parker revisiting the theme of time’s passage with an evolving embrace of the future this time around. It’s a concept that bleeds into the finer details of the LP—and he just told triple j’s Lucy Smith that the mysterious voice at the end of “Tomorrow’s Dust” actually belongs to his wife.

“The Slow Rush,” Tame Impala (Interscope Records)

In typical press release form, the press release for Tame Impala’s upcoming album, The Slow Rush, makes some lofty claims. “Continuing the expansion of a musical palette that started at psych rock and shattered from [debut album] Innerspeaker upwards, The Slow Rush explores new space and sounds,” it gushes. 

Tame Impala’s hotly-anticipated fourth album The Slow Rush arrived today (Feb. 14).

Tame Impala has released their brand-new album The Slow Rush!

Tame Impala just returned with its fourth album, The Slow Rush. The tracklist includes the previously released songs, “Lost In Yesterday,” “It Might Be Time,” and “Borderline.” This is the act’s first LP since 2015’s Currents.

Beginning with the psychedelic vibes of Tame Impala’s 2010 debut, “Innerspeaker,” the group — which, on record, is Kevin Parker alone — has gained acclaim for creating soundscapes that skirt the boundaries of pop, rock and dance music. The constant is Parker’s ethereal falsetto, which can sound like siren call from a distant world.

Tame Impala have released their long-awaited Currents follow-up. The Slow Rush is out now via Interscope/Fiction. Listen to the album below. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Beginning with the psychedelic vibes of Tame Impala’s 2010 debut, “Innerspeaker,” the group — which, on record, is Kevin Parker alone — has gained acclaim for creating soundscapes that skirt the boundaries of pop, rock and dance music. The constant is Parker’s ethereal falsetto, which can sound like siren call from a distant world.

No matter how introspective or emotionally specific his music has been, Kevin Parker — the producer and multi-instrumentalist who records as Tame Impala — has always found a way to draw a kind of surreal, wobbly ecstasy out of it.

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