Tame Impala

Studio Update

For the months of June and July, Tame Impala left their hometown of Perth and decamped 3 hours south to a rugged patch of wilderness out of Margaret River called Injidup. It was here, on a plot of land with a history rich in local folklore, in a labrynth-like structure that resembles something between a treehouse, a shed and a castle, that Tame Impala recorded their forthcoming, as yet untitled debut album. The control room was set up with 180 degree views overlooking the expansive Indian Ocean, and parts were recorded all over the house, including on the balcony while the Fremantle Doctor hammered home.

Fueled by several cases of beer and with a ticket to ride down the highway of their own imaginations, Tame Impala set about making what is set to be one hell of a mindboggling trip of a record.The results of their geographical, mental and emotional trip down to Injidup will emerge soon, and for now you're invited to take a personal trip into the process behind the record with some images and stories behind them with the band....

Further evidence will be on special display on the Sundown Syndrome tour across the country throughout September and October.

Here's some commentary from Dom...

1. Kevin didn't shave his beard for the whole 2 months we were down south. Theres a strong rumour floating around that the beard is now buried in the garden at the property.

2. I think Jay's reading a girls magazine, possibly Marie Claire or Cosmo, that came from a pile we found downstairs. Kevin in typical pose bent over the recording console.

3. Taken as part of a photo shoot we did. That pond had family of frogs who would keep us up all night because they wouldn't shut up. By the end we had learned how to communicate with them and are now fluent in the language of frog.

4. Taken behind the house, again as part of the photo shoot. The house sits on top of the cliff thing. It was a common fear that the house would blow over and fall down the cliff during a storm.

Posted on September 09, 2009 at 05:29pm | 12 comments

Tame Impala Sundown Syndrome National Tour

Posted on July 31, 2009 at 02:58pm | 23 comments

Sundown / Remember Me release & Album Update

Firstly, the 7" Vinyl of Sundown Syndrome and Remember Me is finally released next week. Yay. You can pre-order it here.

Both songs will be up on Itunes shortly aswell, along with the Canyons remix of Sundown Syndrome which is definately worth checking out.

Now, as you may know, we have spent the last month in an isolated house about 4 hours south of Perth working on our debut album. We're probably about 60-70% through the tracking of the album. We're currently in the middle of a week off from recording and are heading back down in a couple of days to finish the album before heading to Japan in a few weeks. We obviously don't want to give too much away but we're pretty excited about what has been produced thus far.

Hope everyone has been well. We can't wait to start playing shows again, and play you all some new songs. Speaking of which, there should be some sort of announcement along those lines in the coming weeks.....

Posted on July 15, 2009 at 01:28pm | 18 comments

Greenfest / Winter Hibernation

Firstly thanks to everyone who came and saw us at Greenfest in Brisbane last week. Especially those of you who came and saw us on more than one day. Anyway the weekend was lots of fun. Perhaps too much fun seeing how we managed to miss our flight home on Monday morning...

Tommorow we are heading down south to begin recording our album. So for the next 2 months we are going to be living in a massive shack on the beach recording away. It shall be awesome. Over the last weeks we have been plotting out what's going on the album and it's all getting pretty exciting.

I'm not sure what the deal with internet is down there but I'll try and post some updates over the course of our recording....

Posted on June 09, 2009 at 11:51pm | 19 comments

This is pretty much the greatest thing....

You have to watch the whole thing....

Posted on June 04, 2009 at 02:21am | 10 comments