Tame Impala - Deadbeat (October 17, 2025) Album • Page 5

legit rip out now

 

Sad to say this is pretty disappointing overall. Started off strong. I really like My Old Ways, Dracula and Loser. Started losing me starting with Oblivion and kept going downhill from there. A lot of EDM tracks, some straight up bad songs too. The EDM stuff is really not my thing at all.

 

I was kinda disappointed with the Slow Rush at first but it grew on me a ton, hoping that’s the case here because dude is 0-for-3 on these singles. Kinda unthinkable that I’d be this ambivalent about a new record of theirs

 

I dunno man, I’m totally groovin’ to “Afterthought” at this literal moment

 

Zane Lowe interview is up

https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/tame-impala-the-zane-lowe-interview/1846003778

 

This is just not it. The drums just sound so dead and lifeless, which is bizarre for Tame.

I think the festival kids will eat this up though. This is the pivot they’ve been wanting them to make for a bit.

Nice to see that it looks like there’s a full band for the upcoming shows…it’ll be interesting to see how they approach the new stuff with a lot of it being 100% electronic.

also, “you’re a cinephile, I watch family guy” is just an all time cringe lyric.

 

Agreed, this stinks.

 

I have a feeling he will go to the b-stage and do a dj set within the show, just based on the stage layout they're showing on the ticketing pages.

 

I don’t hate it

 

I had such a different second listen that I deleted my initial reaction lol. Obsolete is such a banger

 

this is absolutely wild lol

 

The line is even worse in context lmao, there’s a few lines on here that give me that T Swift vibe of cringe or like why are you swearing in this particular forced way lol. Listen two was better but to be fair I may have had some edible assistance, a third listen should give me some clarity on it. I think it’s maybe better than anticipated but I’m not sure this has the grower potential to stay in rotation. TSR is my fav and the first time I heard Breathe Deeper I was speechless, there’s nothing like that here

 

We’ll always have the first 3 records. This is boring

 

Comments here not filling me with hope, oh no

 

If you liked Loser/Dracula I’d say there’s at least a couple more you’ll like, if you liked End of Summer or at least thought it was ok there’s another few you’ll probably like, I will say it’s diverse, but because those first two songs aren’t really close to much else, I’m not sure this album flows too great

 

That’s kind of my problem with it…it doesn’t sound cohesive. Dracula and Loser aren’t really a good indication of the rest of the album.

Being a massive house fan I was so pumped for this record. Cut Copy did a much better job at this aesthetic with their album Moments that came out earlier this year.

This sounds more like psych Tame than anything on the Tame record.

Strangely both Australian artists.

 

Yeah, with my previous mention of the Dj Sabrina album, the closest I can think of to something one could classify as having trippy/house elements and to me this is just levels above any of of the house tracks on here

 

I tried numerous times but could never get into The Slow Rush so I didn’t think I was going to like this, and the reviews so far are not making me feel like that will change.

 

oh man i love this lol

 

lofi house music? i can definitely vibe with this

 

as the biggest hater on this website I also didn't hate this based on my one full listen

 

This met my expectations (bad)

 

Rn I think the opener has some really pretty vocal melody’s, Tracks 3-9 all are not too bad with some being actually pretty nice, Afterthought is also cool but that one was getting hyped and it didn’t live up to it. Liking it more each listen but the lyrics here are bad. He has the ability to write some pretty introspective stuff when he puts his mind to it, nothing game changing but this… no. Does any of it really even fit the whole “Deadbeat” concept that he discussed or is that a reference to the lifeless drums ?

 

Oh man I'm sorry but what the fuck is this opener?

e: holy shit No Reply is AWFUL, I can't do this right now.

 

Turned it off four songs in.

WELP.