Here are 10 soft rock-adjacent artists whose work most noticeably informs tameimpala's TheSlowRush
that Parker’s native Perth, Australia is so isolated that “no new music has reached it since 1969.”
Some bands commit so hard to late-’60s psych that they never use an instrument or effect that wasn’t already developed by 1969. Tame Impala have committed even harder to their late-‘60s influences; just like them, they’ve pivoted to soft rock a decade after their initial psychedelic explosion. That process was just starting on 2012’s more eclectic, still very trippy, which often foregrounded more synths and pop melodies over electric guitars.
Of course, there’s a reason why Tame Impala has always stood out in a crowd of contemporary shaggy-haired, tiny-sunglassed psych revivalists, and that hasn’t changed on. Parker’s music, despite its reverence for the past, is never purely carbon copy pastiche., with its funky drumming, krautrock-inspired song structures, and washed out synths, was never as paint-by-numbers as some critics said it was.
, reimagining them from the vantage point of modern dance music and hip-hop. And contrary to the schmaltzy pap that defines a good deal of soft rock songwriting,Here are 10 soft rock-adjacent artists, ranging from proggy experimentalists to power ballad schmoozers to washed-up classic rockers to Motown legends, whose work most noticeably informsOf all the artists on this list, 10cc are the closest analogue to Tame Impala in 2020.
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