The largely non-intelligible psychadelic rockers Tame Impala sound like they should have hit paydirt at the height of that genre in the 1960s. But in fact, their grandparents were the more likely Pink Floyd devotees, leaving their grandchildren to later discover the mindbending soundscapes of Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, and the Beatles.
The Australian five-piece band, now in their mid-twenties and thus born in the mid-1980s, took the isolation of Perth, Down Under, seriously. Their sounds fill the space with music described by the band's well-written Lolla description as "bedroom psych." The space-like grooves fool the listener into thinking the sounds could have been produced alongside the psych rockers of that older generation -- you know, the one that smoked weed and blissed out together in droves. Or at least, they did it first.
I'm excited to see these guys at Lollapalooza on Friday afternoon. The festival will have just begun. As the older rockers waiting for Sabbath and the dubsteppers waiting for Bassnectar are still rolling in, the rest of us can recreate the bliss on the lawn of the Sony stage at 3:15 p.m. Afterward, pick up the band's 2010 LP Innerspeaker, a work of their genre's art rendered by hands much too young to have seen the 60s firsthand. Bravo, boys.
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