Album Review: Tame Impala - Currents

4/5

Anyone tuning into the BBC’s recent coverage of the Glastonbury music festival may have been puzzled by the appearance halfway through DJ Mark Ronson’s set of an intense-looking man with a trendy-barista beard. The mysterious crooner was Kevin Parker, whose day job is fronting Australian band Tame Impala.

Actually, “fronting” is an understatement: Parker essentially is Tame Impala — on the group’s third album he plays every instrument, sings every song and drills deep into his personal life for lyrics that veer between playful and self-flagellating.