We’ve already lauded this song, but it honestly deserves all that and more – an intoxicating mix of R&B, house and cool indie pop filtered through the distorted mess of Kevin Parker’s mind.īeyond these two tracks, though, the roster varies quite a bit. And even better than “Borderline” is “Breathe Deeper”, a dreamy gem hidden halfway into the album. Accentuated by Parker’s signature Doppler-effect fades, the result is almost a Moebius strip of sound – happy, sad, pained, rapturous all at once – coiled inside one “loner in L.A.”. The song see-saws constantly between cautious synth-rock verses and a feverish chorus, as do the lyrics – “We’re on the borderline / Caught between the tides of pain and rapture,” he says. One of our first tastes of the album was “ Borderline”, released almost a year ago to high praise. On The Slow Rush, there are definitely a few such stand-out moments. You knew Currents was a magical ride from the first song – no matter how many times you heard it all the way through. It had instant classics like “ The Less I Know the Better” and “ Let It Happen” that redefined what a mainstream psychedelic rock song could sound like, taking back the mantle from the likes of Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd. That album was packed to the brim with endlessly-playable mega-hits, interspersed with wisps of ethereal fillers (see: “ Gossip”, “ Nangs“). With a fuller ethos and nods to a wider palette, The Slow Rush finds Kevin Parker, the one-man driving force behind the act, at his most accessible – and the jury is out on whether that’s necessarily a good thing.Ĭomparisons to Currents are of course expected. Nearly five years after mainstream-breaking Currents (2015), Australian psychedelic rock act Tame Impala is back with a new album.