Tame Impala - Flow (2010)

In last week's post I made a passing reference to the fact that Kevin Parker recorded a number of songs under the name Tame Impala in 2007, and posted them on Myspace. So for anyone who was intrigued enough to want to hear them, here they are. None of these tracks were ever resurrected for inclusion on their official albums, and yet they are all the equal of anything that they issued in the first couple of years of their existence. I've added a track from an Australian only 12" single, plus a cover of a song by fellow Aussies Midnight Juggernauts, and a live recording of an otherwise unreleased track, to make up an album-length record, but if he'd added just a couple more songs to these demos he could easily have issued this himself in 2007, with the music being so good that I'm sure it would have broken the band a year or so earlier than eventually happened. The sound is instantly recognisable as Tame Impala, as Parker did everything himself, just as he did for the earliest recordings after he signed to Modular Recordings, and so enjoy this stunning collection of early recordings from the genius that is Kevin Parker.

Track listing

01 Flow (demo 2007)
02 Late Night Moonlight  (demo 2007)
03 Milky Way Spiral Gets A New Arm (demo 2007)
04 My Lover Mother Nature (demo 2007)
05 Bold Arrow Of Time (demo 2007)
06 When The Feeling's In The Core (demo 2007)
07 The Sun (from Australian 12" EP 2008)
08 Vital Signs (Midnight Juggernauts cover 2010)
09 Paradise Course (live recording, date unknown)