Tame Impala reflects on ten years of Currents: "I couldn’t tell if it was great or embarrassingly bad"
Tame Impala's Kevin Parker has shared a post reflecting on the past decade since releasing his third studio album, Currents.
Kevin Parker reveals that it's hard to believe that the album is ten years old, noting that it still feels fresh to this day, and "when we play Let It Happen live these days I still feel it deep in my soul". The album followed the release of Lonerism (2012), and his debut album, Innerspeaker (2010).
"It's taken me this long to really appreciate the music. I had more than one existential crisis during the making and release of this album. I couldn’t tell if it was great or embarrassingly bad, not to mention the fans I would lose by switching up music styles so heavily. People recently have asked me if i was feeling pretty chuffed with myself after making this album and the answer is always absolutely not! There was often so much doubt, but I knew it was an album I had to make," he reveals.
"The lows were low but the highs were high. And during the highs, when I had forgotten to care what people were going to think I’d be driving in my car listening to mixes feeling like it was pure magic, and in those moments I remember thinking whatever the outcome I just had to go through with it, and believe in it even if it felt totally blind. Glad I did. Happy 10th Bday Currents. Emotional thanks to all my peeps who believed in it with me, you know who you are."
Kevin Parker recently teased the release of the fifth Tame Impala album.
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