While Parker's dedication to solitary work may be off-putting to some, the young scion of psych is more focused on articulating the musical visions that exist in his mind than on the glory his labors yield. A well documented and self-professed control freak, Parker has single-handedly written, produced, and tracked the entirety of Tame Impala's recorded output, which now includes the band's anxiously awaited and critically lauded third full-length, Currents. Perth's heir-apparent to the psych throne, Kevin Parker, effectively is Tame Impala. But there's still the introvert and obsessive, singing, "all this running around trying to cover my shadow." Yeah, people of this sort tend to have a distorted perspective on themselves: Even if Parker feels like he only goes backwards, people tend to overlook the next line-"every part of me says, go ahead." As if anyone really needed to tell him, "let it happen.Amid the massive resurgence of psychedelia in recent years (though you could argue that it never really went away), no single artist has transcended the confines of the genre the way Australia's Tame Impala has. He's an expert at conveying the unexpected joy of beginner's luck behind the boards. Parker has been praised as a classic rock voice with an electronic producer's mind and that's even more pronounced here, as "Let It Happen" seems to be editing itself in real time with all manner of filters, manipulated vocals, swirling ambience, and a startling midsection where he mashes down the looper button and holds it. Here he's reframing Tame Impala as a band who can not only do Daft Punk and Darkside-acts who looked to recreate a pre-MTV period when rock bands, pop acts, and dance producers had access to untold cash and studio time (and drugs)-but do it better. Parker emerges only when a challenge is worth his efforts. But this is a guy who welcomed comparisons to Pink Floyd and the Beatles and is now featured on one of the year's biggest pop records. And yeah, it's a glittery, 8-minute "single" lit by a disco ball rather than blacklights, with no lead guitars and no indication that the new record is even done. Nothing just happens on the first single from Tame Impala's upcoming third LP, and not coincidentally, the title's implications are that Parker's very much aware of the stakes here-when he actually sings "let it happen," it could either be read as a reaction to taking flight or plunging to his death.
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