Currents (Tame Impala album)

Currents
Studio album by Tame Impala
Released 17 July 2015
Recorded 2012–15
Studio Kevin Parker's home studio
(Fremantle, Western Australia)[1]
Genre
Length 51:06
Label
Producer Kevin Parker
Tame Impala chronology
Lonerism
(2012)		 Currents
(2015)
Singles from Currents
  1. "Let It Happen"
    Released: 11 March 2015[1]
  2. "'Cause I'm a Man"
    Released: 7 April 2015[1]
  3. "Disciples"
    Released: 29 April 2015[2]
  4. "Eventually"
    Released: 8 May 2015[3]
  5. "The Less I Know the Better"
    Released: 29 November 2015[4]

Currents is the third studio album by Australian psychedelic rock act Tame Impala, released on 17 July 2015 on Interscope Records. Like the group's previous two albums, Currents was written, recorded, performed, and produced by primary member Kevin Parker. For the first time, Parker also mixed the music. It was also the first time that Parker recorded all instruments by himself; the album featured no other collaborations.

After releasing the group's previous record, Lonerism (2012), Parker began work on Currents, largely recording at his home studio in Fremantle. He engrossed himself with writing and recording, and in keeping with his reputation as a musical auteur, labored over the details of each song, ultimately causing the release date to be delayed by two months. In contrast to the psychedelic rock sound of the project's prior work, Currents marks a shift to more dance-oriented music, with more emphasis placed on synthesizers than guitars. Parker was inspired to seek a change out of desire to hear Tame Impala's music played in dance clubs and a more communal setting. Thematically, the record is about the process of personal transformation, which many critics interpreted to be the result of a romantic break-up. The album's cover art depicting vortex shedding is a visualization of these themes.

Currents was preceded by the singles "Let It Happen", "'Cause I'm a Man", "Disciples", and "Eventually". Like its predecessors, the album received critical acclaim. It became the group's best charting release, debuting at number one in Australia, number three in the United Kingdom, and number four in the United States. Currents has sold 120,000 copies in North America, as of December 2015. It appeared on many critics' year-end lists of the best albums of 2015. At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards, Currents was awarded Best Rock Album and Album of the Year.

Background

Tame Impala performing in 2014.

Tame Impala emerged in the early 2010s as one of psychedelic rock's most prominent new acts.[5] The group, fronted by musician Kevin Parker, released two albums that received adoration from music critics: Innerspeaker (2010) and Lonerism (2012).[6] "Elephant" became an alt-rock radio hit, and was placed in several television series and commercials.[7] Parker founded the band and is typically the sole operating member in the studio.[8] In between Tame Impala releases, Parker founded the space disco band AAA Aardvark Getdown Services.[5]

He began writing songs shortly after completing Lonerism,[9] but was unable to specify when the album began to take shape: "There’s never really a start and never really an end either."[10] The idea to compile his songs into an album came when he had between 10–20 songs ready.[11] In May 2014, Parker spoke of his growing inclination toward recording the album in a triple J radio interview, explaining that: "I'm getting more and more sucked into the world of making an album. It's weird how it happens naturally, it's almost feels like a seasonal thing. I've started to think about tracklistings and all the things that come with an album."[12]

The album's change in style has root in several events. Parker began to feel that even songs outside the psychedelic genre could possess its qualities; he made this assumption while accidentally under the influence of mushrooms and listening to the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive".[11][13] At some point, Parker broke up with his girlfriend, French singer-songwriter Melody Prochet, and moved from Paris back to his hometown of Perth.[13] According to Parker, "the only rule was to make an attempt to abandon the rules that I've set up in the past." This included toying with things he considered musically "cheesy" or taboo, including drum machines and various effects.[14]

Recording and production

Kevin Parker, seen here in 2015, recorded, produced, and mixed Currents on his own.

Currents was recorded, produced, and mixed by Kevin Parker at his beachside home studio in Fremantle, Western Australia.[15] The two-room studio contained a minimal amount of equipment: "a ramshackle drum kit, a guitar covered in duct tape and some battered vintage synths."[8] Parker likened his small setup to an airplane cockpit.[13] In an adjoining room, he began designing the light show that would accompany live performances of the album by using automated stage lights on stands.[6][8] He hoped to deviate from the creative process by which he created Lonerism, which he described as torturous, but ultimately found himself "falling down completely the same hole again" on Currents.[16]

Recording the album soon became an obsession to Parker, as he worked "all day, every day," growing increasingly isolated. "At some point, life outside the studio fades into the distance. That's how I know that I'm into it," he remarked. He reasoned that any alternate approach would imply that the music was not powerful enough to consume him.[13] Pitchfork writer Corban Goble described Parker's daily routine in an article shortly preceding the album's release: "During the making of an album, the 29-year-old generally likes to rise around midday and then work, slowly and methodically, late into the night while drinking and smoking."[17] Parker contended this approach helped his writing, noting, "Things flow easier [after a few drinks] — the flow is the most important thing for me for recording."[18] He also often went swimming during breaks, which he dubbed "the ultimate purifier."[18] He followed a mantra of "give the song what it deserves," which entailed creating music without "any sensible or logical decisions."[19] Parker recorded dozens of vocals takes; according to him, for one song, he performed over 1,056 partial vocal takes.[20] For one week, he rented another house located four hours south of Perth—the same one where he recorded Innerspeaker—to brainstorm drum ideas for songs.[11]

The decision to exert control in every aspect of production aside from mastering came from obsession. "I felt like, this way the album is even more my heart and soul, my blood, sweat, and tears," he said.[6] Parker set a deadline to complete the record because of his tendency to procrastinate; he considered it "a blessing in disguise because it forces you to make decisions there and then. Which in the end makes for good art."[14] Currents was due to be completed in January 2015, but the deadline was pushed back several times.[15] Late into the process, he grew self-conscious about the honesty of his lyricism.[8] He became obsessive about minor details in the work,[9] making him unable to wholly enjoy it upon its completion. "I still think this album is completely unlistenable," he said shortly before its release.[17]

Composition

Music

Currents features styles of psychedelic pop,[21] disco,[22] R&B,[23] and synthpop,[24] but the album's chord progressions and rhythms are most indebted to R&B.[25] He listened to R&B from the 1990s during recording,[16] which he had forced himself to reject growing up due to societal pressures: "Music guys aren’t allowed to be into R&B when they are teenagers because all the teenybopper kids blast that shit in their cars," he recalled. As such, learning to let go and embrace it felt liberating.[26] He had previously refrained from making his music more pop-oriented because he thought "thought indie-music snobs would turn their nose up at it,"[27] but discovered that writing pure pop music was a challenge.[28] Parker attributed his openness to anything on Currents to producer Mark Ronson, with whom he worked on his album Uptown Special.[20][26]

Many of the songs were composed over several years, both in the studio and on the road. He would save ideas using a voice recorder on his phone.[27] He wrote many songs on a drum machine.[29] Guitars are present in every song on Currents, but are rather used to accompany/answer other instruments.[25] This was partially due to his gear being inaccessible: "We'd finish one tour in say, Europe, go home for two weeks, and all our gear, including my guitars and pedals, would be on their way to South America." He had a larger array of synthesizers at his home studio, which allowed them to become the prominent instrument. "It's really just whatever is sitting around when I think of the song," he noted.[25] The album incorporates Parker's falsetto, as well as a vocoder.[16]

Lyrics

Currents follows the progression of someone feeling like they are becoming something else. They're becoming the kind of person they thought they'd never become.

“
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Kevin Parker[9]

The lyrical themes of Currents center on personal transition;[11] these include growing older and change.[20] Parker's lyrics on the album are entirely autobiographical,[13] and his vocals are more clear and less affected than in prior Tame Impala releases.[15] Parker noted he had more pride in his lyricism and hoped it would be easy for listeners to understand them.[14] He considered a major theme of the album to be a "deep feeling of transition in your psyche," or, in a broad sense, fully entering adulthood.[14] He began learning about the concept of the Saturn return halfway through the recording process, which explained his feelings of reflection. "I was halfway through making the album when I heard about it, and it gave what I was doing a lot more meaning; suddenly things made a lot more sense," he said.[18] As such, the mood of his transition on the album is acceptance, exemplified by the opening song, "Let It Happen".[14] Parker also felt buying the home where he recorded Currents "really changed my perspective about where I saw myself, like a place that I belonged."[7]

Currents has also been frequently characterized as a breakup album.[30][31] Prior to recording, Parker made the decision to break up with French singer-songwriter Melody Prochet. Several songs on the album examine it from his angle as the instigator of the breakup, which consists of guilt and self-questioning.[32] Parker downplayed the notion that the album was entirely aimed at former lovers, however,[13] and likened it to an inner monologue: "It's really me talking to myself, another part of myself... to my old self, the part of me that resists change and wants me to stay as I am."[33] For Parker, the album meant "looking forward and a sudden adoption of confidence."[29] The album's title reflects this, with currents being "these unstoppable forces; the parts of you that are trying to change you."[11]

Songs
"Let It Happen"
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"Let It Happen" opens the album, and is about "finding yourself always in this world of chaos and all this stuff going on around you and always shutting it out because you don't want to be part of it. But at some point, you realize it takes more energy to shut it out than it does to let it happen and be a part of 'it'."[33] At one point, the song begins to skip, reminiscent of a skipping compact disc. Parker included this as an extension of his fascination with glitches in playback.[11] "Yes I'm Changing" is a song Parker claims he does not remember making: "A weird experience, because it was like it was someone else made the song. I had no memory of imagining it."[34] "Eventually" concerns "knowing that you're about to damage someone almost irreparably, and the only consolation you get is this distant hope that they’ll be alright eventually, because you know they aren't going to be now or soon."[34] Parker conceded that he "can't really deny" it is a breakup song.[34]

Parker stated that "The Less I Know the Better" "shouldn't be on a Tame Impala album because it has this dorky, white disco funk."[34] "'Cause I'm a Man" attracted controversy upon its release due to perceived sexism in its lyrics, but Parker meant the opposite: "The song is about how weak men are basically, and how we make all these excuses."[9] "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" closes out the record, and expresses self-doubt. "The last song is meant to sound like the final battle between optimism and pessimism, a confrontation between the side of you that wants to progress and the side of you that wants to stay the same," said Parker.[33]

Release and artwork

The album's promotional cycle began when lead single "Let It Happen" was released as a free download on March 10, 2015. One day later, Parker was in New York for a mastering session with engineer Greg Calbi.[9] The album was originally set to be released in May 2015, capitalizing on the group's appearance at Coachella.[26] But as the album neared mastering, Parker was not yet done with lyrics for two songs. His perfectionism led to the album's release date being pushed back to July.[20] In the interim, three more singles were released: "'Cause I'm a Man" and "Disciples" in April, and "Eventually" in May.[1][3] Due to the album's delay, Chris DeVille at Stereogum noted that "about a third of the record [had] gone public already" by the time it was released.[26]

The cover art for Currents and its accompanying singles were created by Kentucky-based artist and musician Robert Beatty.[35] Kevin Parker has said Currents' designs are based on a diagram of vortex shedding he remembered while trying to visualise the album's themes.[36] Beatty described how Parker's ideas for the album artwork "were all based on turbulent flow, the way liquid or air flows around objects."[35]

Reception

Critical reaction

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic84/100[37]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[38]
Consequence of SoundA–[39]
The Guardian[31]
The Independent[40]
NME8/10[41]
Paste9.4/10[42]
Pitchfork9.3/10[30]
Q[37]
Rolling Stone Australia[43]
Spin9/10[44]

Currents has received acclaim from music critics. On Metacritic, the album holds an average critic score of 84/100, based on 38 critics.[37] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork gave the album a "Best New Music" designation, saying, "Nearly every proper song on Currents is a revelatory statement of Parker's range and increasing expertise as a producer, arranger, songwriter, and vocalist while maintaining the essence of Tame Impala". Cohen compared the record to others such as Loveless, Kid A, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, writing, "it's the result of a supernaturally talented obsessive trying to perfect music while redefining their relationship to album-oriented rock."[30] Spin's Harley Brown called it "the purest — and most complex — distillation of everything that makes the band such a nearly physical pleasure to listen to". Brown added, "The real magic of Currents, though, is in how Parker so effectively (and genuinely, for the most part) manipulates the listener's emotions without necessarily revealing any himself."[44] Alex Denney of NME praised Parker for his musical transition, writing, "Fuzzed-out guitars simply aren't where Parker's head is at now, which strikes us as a fair trade-off from a producer pushing at the outer reaches of his talent."[41]

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote "A lot of the album's power and strangeness comes from the way [the lyrics] cut against the lusciousness of the arrangements... and the loveliness of the melodies." He praised Parker for creating psychedelia by leaving the listener "simultaneously baffled and intrigued", rather than resorting to cliched psychedelic music effects.[31] Darren Levin of Rolling Stone Australia said "the first thing that really strikes you about Currents is how hi-fi it actually is", and that after listening to the opening track, "you really do get the feeling you're watching one of rock's most restlessly creative minds at work". He concluded his review, "For someone who once sang 'Feels like we only go backwards', moving forward seems like Kevin Parker's only preoccupation right now." Levin was one of many reviewers to compare the album to Daft Punk's 2013 record Random Access Memories.[43] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that like their first two albums, "The core of Tame Impala is its aura of solitude". He called Currents "a tour de force for the songwriter and his gizmos. But it's also decidedly hermetic, nearly airless."[45] Andy Gill of the The Independent said, "while copious application of phasing offers a link to Tame Impala’s psychedelic roots, the absence of guitar wig-outs may disappoint some fans".[40]

Commercial performance

Currents debuted at number one in Australia,[46] the group's first album to top the charts in their native country.[47] It debuted at number three in the United Kingdom, becoming Tame Impala's first top-ten album in the country.[48] In the United States, the album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, moving 50,000 "equivalent album units" in its first week, 45,000 of which were sales;[49] it was the group's first top-ten entry on the chart.[50] The record debuted well on other Billboard charts, entering the Alternative Albums chart and Vinyl Albums chart at number one, and the Top Rock Albums chart at number two; first-week sales of vinyl copies in the US totaled 14,000, the highest for any album in a single week in the US since Jack White's Lazaretto more than a year prior.[50] As of December 2015, 120,000 copies of Currents have sold in North America.[51] In September 2015, the UK's Official Charts Company announced the creation of a new monthly chart called the Official Progressive Albums Chart, and that Currents would be its first number-one album.[52]

Accolades

Currents appeared on several critics' lists of the best albums of 2015. Q named Currents the year's top album, saying that "Parker added dancefloor pop to their kaleidoscopic sound" while calling it "sonically advanced and filled with great songs".[53] Spin ranked it as the year's fourth-best, calling it the group's "best because its soul actually lies in Motown". The magazine said the album finds Parker "coming to the epiphany that no amount of pitch- and time-shifting will screw with your perception of reality as much as a lyric that's as direct and true as 'They say people never change but that's bulls**t / They do.'"[54] Mojo also ranked the record as fourth-best of the year.[55] Pitchfork Media ranked the album as the year's fifth-best, saying, "There's still a bit of Parker's elegant guitar here, but he's mostly rerouted his perfectionistic craftsmanship to synthesizer tones and drum programming."[56] Paste ranked Currents at number eight on its list of the year's best albums, calling it a "near-perfect album" and "a superb progression from their last efforts, a study in internal consistency."[57] Rolling Stone placed the album at number 13 on its list of the "50 Best Albums of 2015", writing that Parker's "musical rethink... is expansive, resulting in wide-screen adventures like 'Let It Happen'" and that the record is "full of weightless vocals and synthesized funk, for a set that's both blissed-out and mournful, like a set of diary entries from an astronaut floating off into oblivion".[58] The album was also ranked fifth-best of the year by Consequence of Sound[59] and NME,[60] 15th-best by Stereogum,[61] and 22nd-best by PopMatters,[62] while Exclaim! named it the eighth-best pop/rock album of the year.[63]

At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards, Currents was awarded Best Rock Album and Album of the Year, and "Let It Happen" was nominated for Best Pop Release. At the same event, Parker won for Engineer of the Year and Producer of the Year for his work on Currents, and Tame Impala were named Best Group.[64]

Covers

Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna covered "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" for her 2016 Album Anti under the title "Same Ol' Mistakes". It consists of the instrumental version of the song performed by Tame Impala, with Rihanna's vocal track replacing Parker's.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Let It Happen"   7:46
2. "Nangs"   1:47
3. "The Moment"   4:15
4. "Yes I'm Changing"   4:30
5. "Eventually"   5:19
6. "Gossip"   0:55
7. "The Less I Know the Better"   3:38
8. "Past Life"   3:47
9. "Disciples"   1:48
10. "'Cause I'm a Man"   4:01
11. "Reality in Motion"   4:12
12. "Love/Paranoia"   3:06
13. "New Person, Same Old Mistakes"   6:02
Total length:
 51:06

Personnel

Production
Artwork

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[65] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[66] 30
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[67] 9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[68] 14
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[69] 28
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[70] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[71] 16
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[72] 25
Irish Albums (IRMA)[73] 7
Italian Albums (FIMI)[74] 31
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[75] 7
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[76] 11
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[77] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[78] 8
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[79] 11
UK Albums (OCC)[80] 3
US Billboard 200[81] 4
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[82] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2015) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[83] 28
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[84] 54
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[85] 68
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[86] 47

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[87] Gold 35,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

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