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Back in August, Concord Music Group released Just Tell Me That You Want Me, a tribute album featuring seventeen different indie acts covering Fleetwood Mac. Notable contributions included MGMT, Best Coast, Lykke Li, Washed Out, and St. Vincent. The record thrives on what all good covers come down to; reinterpreting the original artist to see a song through a different musical point of view. One of the best examples of an artist putting their own vibe on a track on the album is Tame Impala doing a rendition of "That's All For Everyone" from the band's 1979 album Tusk.
The track features the reverb soaked vocals and soaring keyboard lines the Perth psych-rock outfit has become known for and provides a spacey take on the Lindsey Buckingham gem. Sounding Lennon-esque as usual, Tame Impala singer Kevin Parker seemingly takes the track back about ten years and gives it an ambitious late sixties acid rock treatment. The band's album of the year candidate, Lonerism, shares the same sonic territory and it's clear that this track would have fit in comfortably along tracks like "Apocalypse Dreams" and "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards". As with most of this cover album, Tame Impala's reinterpretation reminds how good pop music can sound when quality songwriting isn't sacrificed at the expense of ambitious experimentation.
Uncovered Covers: Tame Impala covers Fleetwood Mac
Back in August, Concord Music Group released Just Tell Me That You Want Me, a tribute album featuring seventeen different indie acts covering Fleetwood Mac. Notable contributions included MGMT, Best Coast, Lykke Li, Washed Out, and St. Vincent. The record thrives on what all good covers come down to; reinterpreting the original artist to see a song through a different musical point of view. One of the best examples of an artist putting their own vibe on a track on the album is Tame Impala doing a rendition of "That's All For Everyone" from the band's 1979 album Tusk.
The track features the reverb soaked vocals and soaring keyboard lines the Perth psych-rock outfit has become known for and provides a spacey take on the Lindsey Buckingham gem. Sounding Lennon-esque as usual, Tame Impala singer Kevin Parker seemingly takes the track back about ten years and gives it an ambitious late sixties acid rock treatment. The band's album of the year candidate, Lonerism, shares the same sonic territory and it's clear that this track would have fit in comfortably along tracks like "Apocalypse Dreams" and "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards". As with most of this cover album, Tame Impala's reinterpretation reminds how good pop music can sound when quality songwriting isn't sacrificed at the expense of ambitious experimentation.
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