Feel the Slow Rush with us, As Tame Impala will be back on Tour
Portrait Photo Credit: Neil Krug
If you are were excited to see Tame Impala at Mopop, get ready for his new tour
The Slow Rush EP will be out Feb 14th // Album Artwork Neil krug
Kevin Parker live at MoPop Music Festival 2019 // Photo by Taylor Ohryn
Tame Impala (Kevin Parker) will release his fourth studio album, The Slow Rush on February 14 (Interscope), and today he announces a full North American tour in support of the album. The tour kicks off with the previously announced date of March 9 at San Diego’s Pechanga Arena and concludes August 7 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA. The dates include two nights at The Forum in Los Angeles on March 10 (sold-out) and 11. Clario and MGMT will support previously announced March dates in California and Mexico, and Perfume Genius will support the full North American tour beginning in May.
Tickets for the newly announced dates go on-sale Friday, December 13 at 10:00 AM local time. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets for select shows before the general public beginning Wednesday, December 11 at 10:00 AM local time through Thursday, December 12 at 10:00 PM local time.
Tame Impala will be in Detroit on April 31st at Little Caesars Arena.
We had the pleasure to catch Tame Impala last summer during the Detroit music festival Mopop. Which you can see the highlights from that festival right here.
The Slow Rush includes songs last week’s “Posthumous Forgiveness,” “It Might Be Time,” and, “Borderline.” The Slow Rush was recorded between Los Angeles and Parker’s studio in his hometown of Fremantle, Australia. The twelve tracks were recorded, produced and mixed by Parker. Fans can pre-order The Slow Rush at tameimpala.com and all major retailers, or with a ticket purchased for any of the North American tour dates. Digital pre-orders will receive the three album tracks instantly. The Slow Rush will also be printed in 4 heavyweight double-disc vinyl formats - standard black, forest green (Limited Edition - all retailers), red/blue (indie-retail exclusive) and splatter (Tame Impala Webstore exclusive).
The Slow Rush is Parker’s deep dive into the oceans of time, conjuring the feeling of a lifetime in a lightning bolt, of major milestones whizzing by while you’re looking at your phone, it’s a paean to creation and destruction and the unending cycle of life. Parker told the New York Times earlier this year, “A lot of the songs carry this idea of time passing, of seeing your life flash before your eyes, being able to see your life from this point onwards. I’m being swept by this notion of time passing. There’s something really intoxicating about it.” The album cover was created in collaboration with photographer Neil Krug and features a symbol of humanity all but swallowed whole by the surrounding environment, as though in the blink of an eye.
Before we go, Let’s talk about whose opening for Tame Impala, Perfume Genius
After mesmerizing audiences with his recent performances as part of The Sun Still Burns Here, Mike Hadreas will be teaming up with Kevin on The Slow Rush tour. Perfume Genius has spent much of 2019 co-creating and performing inThe Sun Still Burns Here, a collaboration between Hadreas and Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich and her company The YC. The show is an evening-length dance and music work and was commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group, The Joyce Theater and Mass MoCA. The Sun Still Burns Here debuted in Seattle and then had multi-night performances at New York City’s Joyce Theater and The Walker Center in Minneapolis. The Sun Still Burns Here heads to Boston for a 2-night run at Boston Premiere on January 17 and 18. Perfume Genius released two of the project’s songs earlier this year, the eight-minute trance-like meditation, “Eye In The Wall,” and the show’s climactic “Pop Song.”
Perfume Genius is the critically acclaimed art-pop project of Mike Hadreas. Together with his long-time partner Alan Wyffles, Perfume Genius have released four albums on Matador. The debut record Learning, 2012’s Put Your Back N 2 It, the confronting and defiant Too Bright and his Blake Mills-produced transcendent masterpiece, No Shape. “If you listen to the four Perfume Genius albums in chronological order, you can hear Hadreas healing himself in real time, moving toward an emancipation that seems, suddenly, to have come to pass,” said The New Yorker. “The center of his music has always been a defiant delicacy - a ragged, affirmative understanding of despair.
