- September 11, 2025
- 9:38 am
Bingkai Karya – Tame Impala (Kevin Parker) has officially announced his highly anticipated fifth studio album, Deadbeat, set for release on October 17 via Columbia Records. The record sees Parker diving deep into a powerful club-psych exploration, serving as a canvas for some of his most experimental and resonant songwriting to date. Inspired by the bush doof culture and rave scene of Western Australia, Deadbeat positions Tame Impala as a kind of primal-futuristic rave act.
A day before the album announcement, Parker dropped the single “Loser” alongside a music video directed by Kristofski and starring Joe Keery. Deadbeat is now available for pre-order, with exclusive web-store vinyl variants, as well as special editions from Urban Outfitters and Indie Record Store. Additionally, a limited-numbered cassette edition will be sold exclusively through Brooklyn Vegan and Alternative Press.
Crafted over the past several years across various locations, Deadbeat was primarily developed between Parker’s hometown of Fremantle and his Wave House studio in Injidup, Western Australia, during early 2025. The result is the sound of an artist reaching a new level of maturity balancing his perfectionist tendencies with a newfound sense of spontaneity. The album delivers a more minimal yet powerful sonic palette, enriched with fresh timbres, textures, and a wider, more expressive vocal range.
Lyrically, Deadbeat portrays Parker caught in a negative cycle filled with self-doubt and a lingering sense of falling behind where stability should have already been achieved. While The Slow Rush (2020) revolved around the concept of time, Deadbeat hones in on the subtle details of everyday emotions. Blended with euphoric, body-moving soundscapes, the album frames rave culture as self-reflection, an alternative form of healing, and an endless celebration of domestic joy where reality itself can be postponed for a day (or two).
The single “Loser”, which accompanied the album announcement, follows the release of “End of Summer” a 7 minute epic that marked the beginning of this new era for Tame Impala. Evoking the spirit of acid house summers in 1989, mid-90s free parties, and outback bush doofs, the track reimagines lived history into something that feels both timeless and distinctly contemporary, all while retaining Tame Impala’s unmistakable identity. The song also arrived with a short visual directed by multidisciplinary artist Julian Klincewicz.
About Kevin Parker
Kevin Parker is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the past decade. Known for his distinctive sonic identity, he has built a genre-spanning musical landscape writing, performing, producing, mixing, and engineering every detail of his projects. He has earned four GRAMMY nominations and one win, through his collaboration with Justice on “Neverender” (2024). In Australia, Parker has collected 13 ARIA Awards and 27 nominations, alongside a BRIT Award for Best International Band and nominations at the Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards.
At U.S. Alternative Radio, Tame Impala has landed multiple Top 10 hits, including two #1 tracks: “Lost In Yesterday” and “Is It True.” Their iconic anthem “The Less I Know The Better” has surpassed 2 billion streams globally, with the project achieving multiple gold and platinum certifications worldwide.
Tame Impala has headlined major festivals and arenas across the globe and previously released four acclaimed studio albums: InnerSpeaker, Lonerism, Currents, and The Slow Rush. The Slow Rush reached #1 in numerous countries and became the band’s highest-charting record in both the U.S. and the U.K., earning 14 Top 10 chart positions worldwide. As a writer and producer, Parker has also collaborated with some of the world’s biggest names, including Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, SZA, Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Mark Ronson, Gorillaz, Thundercat, Kali Uchis, 070 Shake, Rihanna, Miguel, A$AP Rocky, and many more.
