Overview
- Deadbeat arrived Oct. 17 as Tame Impala’s first album in five years, leaning into electronic, techno and acid-house influences rooted in Western Australia’s rave culture.
- Kevin Parker says he aimed to be free from sonic perfection, opening the album with a deliberately janky phone-recorded piano demo.
- The release is Parker’s first through the Sony Music network via a new arrangement with Columbia Records.
- Promotion kicked off with Tame Impala’s first in-office NPR Tiny Desk appearance, an all-acoustic set featuring new tracks Loser and Dracula.
- Dracula has entered the Billboard Hot 100 around No. 55, as the Deadbeat Tour starts Oct. 27 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center before a UK/Europe run from April 4 to May 13.