"On a bright afternoon in late August, I met Kevin Parker, the polymath behind the psych-pop project Tame Impala, at a hotel bar in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Parker was dressed in baggy pants, flip-flops, and sunglasses. His hair is the kind of shaggy that suggests abject neglect more than overpriced Hollywood coiffure. We ordered a round of mezcal cocktails, which, when they arrived, were conspicuously pink and garnished with tiny orchids."
"In the early twenty-tens, Parker, who was brought up in Perth, in Western Australia, became an indie-rock megastar. (The first three Tame Impala records received consecutive "Best New Album" designations from Pitchfork.) He ended the decade by headlining Coachella and appearing on "Saturday Night Live." ("The Less I Know the Better," a woozy single from "Currents," Tame Impala's third album, has been streamed more than two billion times.)"
Kevin Parker appeared at a Los Feliz hotel bar in late August wearing baggy pants, flip-flops, and sunglasses, with shaggy hair and conspicuously pink mezcal cocktails garnished with tiny orchids. Parker grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and rose to indie-rock megastardom in the early 2010s, with the first three Tame Impala records earning Pitchfork "Best New Album" distinctions. He headlined Coachella, appeared on Saturday Night Live, and "The Less I Know the Better" has been streamed more than two billion times. Parker has co-produced records for major pop artists and will release Deadbeat, a fifth album that moves between dance-inflected rock like "Loser" and expansive, quasi-techno tracks like "End of Summer," aiming to blend sounds into something that doesn't exist.
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