Tame Impala CURRENTSAfter a long break from making Tame Impala music, during which time Kevin Parker produced other people's albums and played in side projects, 2015's Currents shows that much has changed with the project. Like before, Parker recorded the album on his own, only this time without Dave Fridmann's guiding hand and by mostly forsaking electric guitars in favor of a wealth of synthesizers, and this time out there's a much more relaxed, intimate approach. In

Philip Jones (trumpet)

as well as the sampledelia of 2007's landmark Person Pitch - but Buoys otherwise represents a surprising and intimately pleasurable new direction for an artist who's embraced not repeating oneself as it's own creative ethos

Although this disc contains 25 Number One country hits by the legendary singer Conway Twitty

It was here that Takuya met vocalist José James

Facing the third album blues

spoken about in the same breath as Larry Heard or Ron Trent amongst the DJ cognoscenti

The album was released just six months after his last full-length

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios

along with posthumous vocals from Nate Dogg

it's not always immediately accessible or pleasurable to an outside listener

Released: 11/10/2017

The cooler textures and digital sheen of that album certainly informs Lamp Lit Prose