“Be Above It” by Tame Impala

"Be Above It" is pure Kevin Parker: he wrote it, sang it, played it, recorded it and produced it, handing only the mix to Dave Fridmann. It comes from Lonerism, the second Tame Impala album, which Modular released on October 5, 2012, and like the debut, Innerspeaker, it was almost entirely a one-man job.

Parker made the record mostly in Perth and Paris, steering his psychedelia away from guitars and toward synthesizers and samples, chasing catchier, poppier melodies and sprinkling many of the tracks with ambient sound he'd caught on a dictaphone. Isolation is the thread through all of it, right down to the cover photo of the Jardin du Luxembourg shut away behind a fence. Critics lapped it up, and it won Album of the Year and Best Rock Album at the 2013 ARIA Awards.

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