It’s a meditation on growth and memory, one that floats in your headphones like a body in warm salt water.
This is music that wants to be untethered from everything, whether that’s relationships with other people, stylistic context, or even any sense of momentum. (It's brought to life with the help of a touring band.) Spending time with Currents, his magnificent third album, is like hopping into an isolation chamber he designed. He embodies it, writing, recording, and producing all of the music himself. ("But I don’t even care about it anyway / I wouldn’t listen to a word any of them say.")Īs the sole creative force behind Tame Impala, Parker’s interest in solitude is deeper than lyrical fancy. One of the best songs on Innerspeaker, his 2010 breakout full-length, was called " Solitude Is Bliss" two years later, he asked " Why Won’t They Talk to Me?" only to conclude it wasn’t worth the trouble, and did so in the middle of an album called Lonerism. Recording from a Juno-106 you have to sit and manually raise the fader in time with the music while recording, however with TAL U-NO-LX you can simply automate the frequency parameter.Kevin Parker has always been fascinated with the idea of being alone: how it changes your behavior, how it alters your experience, how other people can compromise the unique euphoria you can find through truly understanding yourself. Turn on the chorus II effect to add that lush Juno sound. The patch opens up at several key points in the song, such as the end of the intro, and this effect is achieved by simply raising the freq fader. Set the ADSR envelope with a medium attack of 4 and a long decay of 8, leaving sustain at almost maximum. Take the frequency fader down to the 2 mark, add some resonance and then raise the env fader to 4 to create some filter movement.
TAL U-NO-LX is my go-to plugin for Juno vibes in-the-box, and the patch can be created with a square wave with no sub oscillator. On Cause I’m a Man it is used for a subdued but rich sound that fills out the production without overpowering it. He acquired it before the recording of Lonerism and has used it frequently since. The main synth pad heard in the intro and verses is from Kevin’s trusty Roland Juno-106, a vintage synth responsible for most of Tame Impala’s synth tones.
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