Ranking Every Tame Impala Album
4. Innerspeaker
Innerspeaker is certainly not the greatest debut album in music history, but for someone taking on such a big task as to make psychedelic music the main theme in a band, Innerspeaker is an incredible start. After listening to his other three albums, you can certainly tell this album is raw, but it introduces key elements of Parker’s music that we have so much love for. Innerspeaker brings in a great mix of psychedelic, folk and lo-fi to produce that sound that hadn’t been popularized since the aforementioned Supertramp.
Even though Parker is a strong component of including many different instruments throughout his albums, Innerspeaker is certainly the strongest when it comes to putting an emphasis on the guitar. That guitar sound, especially on the intro song “It is Not Meat To Be” introduces you to what Tame Impala is at its core – a hippy making psychedelic music that will make you float while listening to it – think acid-era Beatles. While the album continues on with the seedlings of that raw sound, the song “Solitude is Bliss” is really the tunnel that leads you to Lonerism, Currents and The Slow Rush.
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