Tame Impala seduces in Madrid with its journeys from psychedelia to electronica

The musical talent of the raudales and that despicable attitude they call the Anglo-Saxons relaxed. That’s the combination that does it Kevin Parker (Sydney, 1986), el alma de Tame Impalacharismatic guy above the script. Today I am at the Movistar Arena in Madrid rotation of the latest album, Deadbeatsand I say I felt “very, very happy to be back in this beautiful city”.

The Australian singer-songwriter is holding a pint of applied lad, lovable and slightly rebellious as he is an empollón, which will serve well for the misfits of the class as he has to copy ciders. This is why it gives the flavor of incense a cigar in an enclosed space (let’s not forget that you need to file a complaint on the Nofumadores.org platform that you reported smoking to Rosalía in the podcast) or make sure the room stays in the bathroom from backstage so (in cases) we need to evacuate the vejiga, something that no one has seen before in concert.

Parker has an overview of his repertoire, which he was moving into from the psychedelic pop-rock of his early days to the electronic pop with ramalazos techno of today. It was that they interwoven with each other with naturalness, because everything, whatever it is, raises the saddle of a recognizable style that gives it coherence.

The sound was good, clear and balancedEven in large enclosures, it is difficult for average frequencies to keep anything from filling up with graves and birds. Parker has an exhibition good vocal form and the musicians accompanying him were in tune.

AND masterful use of lights and lights they were the main component of the scenography, with a modular system of lights that form a circle capable of unfolding and taking different shapes, as well as two strict side panels with lyrical effects that we show the musicians from inside the stage.

There are enough music tourists among the public, that’s it a lot of English was learned in classrooms and villages. It was not a particularly significant audience, except for the two or three front rows unconditionally in permanent euphoria. The rest moved their heads without much fear, occasionally moving at you with their hands in their bags, except for three or four of the most famous songs.

The show was on time, at 8:15 p.m., with Parker’s silhouette captured under light bulbs and “Apocalypse Dreams” being recorded. Solitude (2012), sequel to “The Moment” (de Currents2015), “Borders” (de Slow rush2020).

Now I’m waiting for the fourth song to listen to something from the new album, “Loser” in the middle of the day, which will allow me to hear electricity setlist it would be a journey through the entire discography. “Breathe Deeper,” with its acidic synth coda, plays with the short instrumental of “Gossip,” scanned cigar in hand in front of another of his greats. hits“Elephant”, with that galloping distorted bass that can get the whole audience dancing.

With “Afterthought” he returned Deadbeats and at a ghost disco with real images of road trips and games in the windows that seemed to transport us to Ibiza in the 90s.

In “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”, we took a look back at 2012 (year Solitude and his ordination as the great renovator of psychedelia), with light modules that disarmed and projected a multitude of colors as if light were passing through a prism.

interpreted Después “Dracula”, the biggest release of his new albuma song that follows the canonical codes of the most current dance-pop and that could be perfectly a hits Dua Lipa’s group (for whom I definitely produced and co-wrote a large part of the album Radical optimism 2024, including the “Houdini” and “Training Season” sessions).

With the instrumental version of “No Reply” I tried to go to the bathroom with the camera following the steps and when I came back it appeared in scenario B, which is located at the back of the floor, right next to the sound control. A red, aluminum platform with lamps and a load of electronic devices with which if a small electronic session was sent in the field. From there to the sound of trackers and synths “Ethereal Connection” with 135 BPM and for a moment it feels like we’re at Sónar or a techno clubbut one power cozy.

Collective euphoria ensued with “Let It Happen”the most famous theme of the album Currentsincluding a shower of confetti and the audience singing like in Spain: with a good “lo-lo-lo”.

Through the instrumental “Nangs,” Parker assured her that she would very much like to follow the rest of her life by coming to Spain to touch, and then wondered what the lights were that moved the public. When he walked in they were Cerveza street vendors I was even happier I said I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere else and looked up production manager that he will buy you one. The only (cute) abucheo of the evening was brought up with the question of whether it was Superbock, but there was further forgiveness for his mistake when he realized that the brand was from Portugal, where he had been before his trip to Spain.

Tras bajarse lacerveza di un trago, tocó for the second time straight in life, as he stated, the song “List of People (To Try and Forget About)”, considering that he took it for more than ten years. The first was the other day in Porto.

“Expectations”, from his very psychedelic first album, went down “Piece of Heaven”, a song Parker dedicates to his wife Peach en Deadbeatsand the fence was spontaneously illuminated by thousands of indoor mobile lights.

Two slow themes Currents (most of which came from the new album that motivates the turnaround), “Eventually” and “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” popped the question at a concert before the second round.

Returning to the script, Parker received the biggest ovation of the night, appreciating that people preferred to see it as Real Madrid-Bayern. “You made my heart stronger. I just want to say how much I like it. We like football, it’s a good game, but now it’s just about being here with you,” he said.

They ended up playing “My Old Ways”, “The Less I Know the Better” (which has never been heard) and “End of Summer”, another electronic download from Deadbeats that I excitedly told the public to watch the party in some quarter of the capital.