Tame Impala-Apocalypse Dreams

Kevin Parker has been a busy man lately. He’s been in the studio mixing and recording with Melody Prochet of Melody’s Echo Chamber (check out “Crystallized”) and also working on new material with his psych rock outfit Tame Impala. Earlier this week the band dropped news of a sophomore record titled Lonerism and with that came a new track from the LP titled “Apocalypse Dreams”. Of course when I found out about this I had to visit Pitchfork to hear the single for myself and needless to say, I was thoroughly impressed. If you thought that 2010’s Innerspeaker was as good as it gets then you’re certainly mistaken because Tame Impala has only improved on their blissful style of psychedelia pop since then. I promise that I’m completely sober at the moment but when I put on “Apocalypse Dreams” it’s like I’m in a completely different state of mind. If you think I’m just over exaggerating then listen to the track for yourself and I’m sure that you’ll catch my drift. You can grab the song for free via Pitchfork and expect the group to drop the next single “Elephant” later this month. Lonerism is scheduled for an October release through Modular People.

Wild Nothing-Shadow

Thanks to Captured Tracks and Jack Tatum my morning has been made. The brainchild of Tatum, Wild Nothing quickly became one of my favorite bands ever since I first heard the debut LP Gemini sometime last year and now my waiting has paid off because new information just surfaced on the group’s sophomore release. The album is titled Nocturne and it’ll drop on August 28th (27th for those of you in the UK). While Wild Nothing released their Nowhere 7” a few months back neither “Wait” or “Nowhere” will appear on the new album and despite those tracks being constantly played in my library I certainly don’t mind a fresh batch of songs at all. Along with the news of this new album also came a new single, the opening track from Nocturne which is titled “Shadow”. Though the band’s trademark hazy, dream pop style is still apparent it’s obvious in the orchestrated sound and delicate grooves of “Shadow” that Jack has created a work which is both more developed and mature than Gemini. If you head over to Pitchfork you can view the album’s tracklist as well as the dates for Wild Nothing’s upcoming tour with the likes of Grimes, DIIV, and Beach House. Now I’ve got another album to add to my calendar and with that I’m even more so convinced that this year in music will be a hard one to top.