Tame Impala Makes Long-Awaited Comeback With New Album ‘Deadbeat’ – Listen
The newly released record is his first album in five years following 2020’s The Slow Rush, and comprises the singles “Dracula,” “Loser,” and “End of Summer.”
Photographed by Julian Klincewicz.
Photographed by Julian Klincewicz.
Tame Impala (also known as Kevin Parker) has finally released his fifth studio album, titled Deadbeat.
The newly released record was teased over the past few months with the singles “Dracula,” “Loser,” and “End of Summer,” and comprises twelve tracks that span nearly one hour. On Deadbeat, Parker navigates the genres of club and psychedelic music to deliver an infectious collection of introspective tracks, with the latter quality emphasized by his most direct, if brain-wormy, songwriting to date.
According to an official press release, the record was conceptualized in a variety of spots across the globe, and later recorded in Parker’s hometown of Fremantle and his studio, Wave House, in Injidup, Western Australia, over the first half of 2025. He is also set to bring the album on tour with the Deadbeat World Tour, with the first four shows taking place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, before wrapping on November 17 with the last of three performances at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Next year, Parker is also set to bring the tour to the UK and EU beginning in the spring of 2026.
Together with the full album’s release, Parker dropped a music video for the album opener “My Old Ways,” which was directed by Kristofski and featured behind-the-scenes footage the director took throughout the process of Parker making the record in various locations around the world. Check it out below:
Deadbeat marks his first full-length record to be released under Columbia Records, and serves as his fifth studio album following The Slow Rush (2020), Currents (2015), Lonerism (2012), and Innerspeaker (2010). On the Billboard Hot 100, Parker’s latest single, “Dracula,” made its debut at the No. 55 spot of the chart, also marking his first-ever Hot 100 entry.
Though Parker has not released solo music over the last few years, he has released various collaborations with several of his peers, including “New Gold” with Gorillaz and Bootie Brown, “No More Lies” with Thundercat, as well as “One Night/All Night” and “Neverender” with Justice. He also contributed to two blockbuster soundtracks, releasing “Journey To The Real World” for Barbie, and “Wings of Time” for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and contributed significantly to the production of Dua Lipa‘s third album, Radical Optimism.
Listen to Tame Impala’s Deadbeat in its entirety below: