Tame Impala is back with a remix featuring Jennie

Grammy Awards, Jennie… Tame Impala’s triumphant comeback

After five years of absence, Kevin Parker resurfaced on October 17th, 2025, with Deadbeat, a fifth album composed with his legendary band Tame Impala. An album described as deeply “influenced by bush doof culture and the rave scene of Western Australia.” An electric mapping of the night.

Bush doof culture actually refers to these untamed rave parties taking place all over Australia — in forests, arid landscapes, shorelines — where psychedelic trance, earthy techno and hallucinatory imagery converge in an almost ritualistic communal momentum.

The Grammy Award-winning track End of Summer, featured on that album, shapes a soundscape in which acid house intertwines with ethereal trails. Loser (2025), is more concise and injects a melancholic tone. On a different register, Dracula (2025), co-written with Sarah Aarons, plunges the listener into the record’s duskier pop. A very clear tribute to Bram Stoker’s monster, a romantic, emaciated figure whose thirst for life has been transformed by Kevin Parker into a metaphor for expired desire. This new remix features Jennie’s voice.

The massive success of the album The Slow Rush

Kevin Parker, a recent collaborator of the duo Justice, shared that he approached his new record from a psychologically complex place. For him, as for the listener, the challenge is no longer immediate appeal, but enduring an inner tension and making the erosion of desire tangible.

In 2020, he unveiled The Slow Rush. An album that evoked the passage of time and our perception of it. Working alone on the songwriting, composition and production of the twelve tracks of that album, the 39-year-old Australian musician brought together echoes of Supertramp, Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers. The whole project was infused with touches of funk, disco, break beat and psychedelic rock. A compact album with equally intense songs.

In the manner of a “chopped and screwed” track – a technique characteristic of 1990s hip-hop, involving chopping and slowing down the tempo of a sample – Kevin Parker invites us to slow down the paranoid, apocalyptic pace that defined his previous album. The Slow Rush feels like the calm after the storm unleashed by Currents (2015).

An iconic album cover

At the time, the landscape shot by Neil Krug on the album cover art was reminiscent of the day after an apocalypse. It visually captured this return to calm, with a photograph taken inside an abandoned house in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia.

Walls coated in a striking red paint contrasted with the vivid blue of the sky and the silky wave of sand that spilled onto this deserted space. Echoing the inevitable hourglass counting down the minutes born out of nothingness, and symbolizing the passage of time and decay, the flow of sand became the guiding thread of The Slow Rush. A lingering, silent memento mori in the face of the ephemeral quality of each musical note. Now, Tame Impala changes course with Deadbeat. The album cover features a slightly blurred black-and-white photograph in which Kevin Parker is holding his daughter, Peach, in his arms.

Dracula (Jennie Remix) (2026) by Tame Impala and Jennie, available now.