REALITY IN MOTION

BY CECELIA TRAN-PHAM How Tame Impala’s Currents Projected the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tame Impala’s 2015 album Currents has been critically acclaimed by music critics, with the Internet’s Most-Flannel-Wearing Music Nerd Anthony Fantano stating that it was the “album of a lifetime, definitely one to represent any group of individuals during any pandemic, a medium-well done 19/10”*. The World Health Organisation claims that it cannot state anything on the matter as a bipartisan international body, or alternatively speaking, “we can’t get too political otherwise Triple J may cancel us, put us on their blacklist and we end up losing our funding”.

*He didn’t actually, he gave it a ‘soft 7’, but why does he get to have the ultimate say? Just call it an 8 and give it a rest.

The first track, ‘Let It Happen’, immediately penetrates the normie brain with the fruit of Kevin Parker’s rainbow tie-dyed bubblegumsmelling loins - the neverending 7 minutes and 48 seconds reminding you that you must let COVID-19 happen. Kev's angelic voice almost transports you to a time where you weren’t mindlessly watching Bon Appetit videos all day and when you had a life to live. Then there’s tracks like ‘Nangs’ - that’s pretty much all there is to say about that. But is there something more to that?

The Moment? Yes, I’m Changing? The Less I Know The Better???

Quite frankly, I’m pretty excited for this all to be over - I’m sitting here, trying to *review* an album from five years ago and tie it to a pandemic that seems to be neverending. I guess all I can do is think “Fuck Trevor”, which Kevin says can be roughly translated to “this is quite a predicament we’re in, innit guvnor?”.