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Label: Modular Recordings – MODCD126
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2010
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

1        It Is Not Meant To Be
2        Desire Be Desire Go
3        Alter Ego
4        Lucidity
Handclaps – Tansie Bennetts
5        Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?
6        Solitude Is Bliss
Drums – Jay Watson
7        Jeremy's Storm
Effects [Additional Sound Effects] – Dom Simper*
8        Expectation
Guitar [Interlude After Expectation] – Jay Watson
9        The Bold Arrow Of Time
Bass – Dom Simper*
Drums – Jay Watson
Written-By [Interlude After Bold Arrow Of Time] – Jay Watson, Kevin Parker (2)
10        Runway, Houses, City, Clouds
Guitar [Additional] – Dom Simper*
11        I Dont Really Mind

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Modular Recordings
Copyright © – Modular Recordings
Recorded At – Wave House
Recorded At – Poons Head
Mixed At – Tarbox Road Studios
Glass Mastered At – Sony DADC – DIDX-767311
A&R – Dreamtime & Walkabout
Artwork – Leif Podhajsky
Engineer – Tim Holmes
Management – Jodie Regan
Management [Dave Fridmann Managed By] – Peter Shershin
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Mixed By – Dave Fridmann
Recorded By [Additional Recording By] – Rob*
Vocals, Instruments [Except Where Indicated] – Kevin Parker (2)
Written-By, Recorded By, Producer – Kevin Parker (2)
P&C Modular Recordings 2010. Manufactured and distributed by Fontana Distribution LLC.

Recorded June - August 2009 at Wave House Injidup, Western Australia. Additional recording at Poon's Head in Fremantle and at home. Mixed at Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, NY. Dave Fridmann managed for Breathing Protection. Mastered at Sterling Sound.

Track 1 is shown as "It Is Not Meant To Be" (differing from other issues) on both the back cover of the digipak and on page 2 of the sleeve insert.

Track 11 is shown as "I Dont Really Mind" on the back cover of the digipak but as "I Really Dont Mind" on page 5 of the sleeve insert. Neither instance has an apostrophe in "Dont."

Packaged in a Digipak.

Note, the Greg Calbi mastering credit is misprinted as Dave Calbi.
Barcode (Printed): 6 02527 37538 0
Barcode (Scanned): 602527375380

: Kevin Parker (vocals). Audio Mixer: Dave Fridmann. Recording information: Poon's Head, Fremantle (06/2009-08/2009); Wave House, Injidup, Western Australia (06/2009-08/2009). The limpid lysergic swirls and squalling fuzz-toned riffs that populate Tame Impala's debut clearly owe a hefty, heartfelt debt to the hazy churn of late-'60s/early-'70s psych rock, but the members of this Perth threesome are hardly strict revivalists. In comparison to their similarly inspired contemporaries, they chart a course somewhere between Dungen's lovingly meticulous replication of their chosen style and Malachai's deconstructive, electronically enabled pastiche of same, deftly skirting the potential for parodic excess that comes with either extreme. Balancing an obvious reverence for their sonic forebears with subtly contemporary production tweaks, they make straddling two disparate eras feel like the most comfortable, effortless thing in the world. And that sense of unforced, unpretentious ease is fundamental to what makes Innerspeaker so simply, viscerally pleasurable: there's so much that Tame Impala get so wonderfully right here --?a distinct but understated undercurrent of melody, a relaxed but ever-present sense of groove, a crystal crispness and deliberateness to the sound even when it's treated with a healthy dousing of buzz and reverb --?without seeming like they're trying at all hard. Despite a classic power trio configuration and relatively limited use of overdubbing, the album frequently feels so sonically massive, so thick with ringing guitars, walls of effects, and tremendous, reverberating drums, that it's hard to believe it's the work of a mere threesome. Kudos are perhaps in order to neo-psych mainstay Dave Fridmann, who mans the mixing boards here with a relish and restraint that helps make this one of the most tasteful (and tasty) records on his recent r?sum?. Credit frontman Kevin Parker's lazily drawled, remarkably Lennon-esque vocals, too, (frequently Leslie'd or otherwise processed, which helps) with giving the album an extra air of free-floating authenticity (while only occasionally giving up anything as specific and tangible as a substantially intelligible lyric). It's only infrequently that individual songs manage to stand out from the surrounding fluid, atmospheric haze -- typically when the band decides to leave its hooks a bit of space to breathe, as on the chunky, chugging closer "I Don't Really Mind" or the crisp, snakily phased guitar lick cementing the deliciously poppy "Solitude Is Bliss." But the dearth of standout tracks here hardly feels like an issue --?indeed, Innerspeaker coasts so beautifully on its blissful, billowing waves of sound that readily discernible hooks almost seem like gratuitous distractions. ~ K. Ross Hoffman

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 8/16/2010