Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker says that he looks for negative reviews of his music.
In a new interview with RUSSH Magazine, the musician reflected on releasing music today, saying: “It’s weird these days. Depending on which pocket of the internet you look at, you’ll find completely different reactions.
“I’ll go on YouTube or Instagram, and there’ll be so much positivity, but I’ll still scroll until I find the negative ones,” he continued. “We all do it, right?”
Parker then went on to admit that releasing a record can feel “violating”, as the music no longer belongs to just him. “It’s this baby that you’ve been growing for a year, two years, this thing that you’ve stressed and cried and laughed over – and danced to yourself and loved and hated,” he explained.
“This thing you’ve had following you around for so long, and then it’s suddenly seeing the light of day and being shared with the world,” he added. “It’s just such an overwhelming idea, you know?
“The idea of these songs that were once yours, and now are not yours; they belong to the world now. That transition weighs quite heavily on the artist, I think.”
He then added: “Sometimes it even feels a little violating. Because they were yours, and now they are not.”
Tame Impala’s fifth studio album ‘Deadbeat’ arrived back on October 17, and was given a three-star review from NME. It noted that “Parker has grown outside his comfort zone, only to strike a kind of lyrical inertia that becomes detrimental to his new vocabulary of music”.
Over the past two months, Tame Impala embarked on a huge US tour, and they will be bringing the show to the UK and Europe in spring 2026. UK shows include a stop at the O2 Arena on May 7, followed by visits to Manchester (8), Birmingham (9) and Glasgow (11) and Dublin (13).
Visit here for European tickets, here for UK tickets and see all dates below.
Tame Impala’s 2026 UK and European tour dates are:
APRIL
4 – Super Bock Arena – Pavilhão Rosa Mota – Porto, Portugal
5 – MEO Arena – Lisbon, Portugal
7 – Movistar Arena – Madrid, Spain
8 – Palau Sant Jordi – Barcelona, Spain
10 – LDLC Arena – Lyon, France
12 – Inalpi Arena – Turin, Italy
13 – Unipol Arena – Bologna, Italy
14 – Hallenstadion – Zurich, Switzerland
16 – Olympiahalle – Munich, Germany
18 – PreZero Arena – Gliwice, Poland
20 – O2 Arena – Prague, Czechia
23 – Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany
25 – Royal Arena – Copenhagen, Denmark
26 – Avicii Arena – Stockholm, Sweden
27 – Unity Arena – Oslo, Norway
29 – Uber Arena – Berlin, Germany
30 – Festhalle – Frankfurt, Germany
MAY
1 – PSD Bank Dome – Dusseldorf, Germany
3 – Accor Arena – Paris, France
4 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam, Netherlands
5 – AFAS Dome – Antwerp, Belgium
7 – The O2 – London, United Kingdom
Elsewhere, earlier this month, Parker shared his love for Deftones, Silverchair and Queens Of The Stone Age, and explained how they inspired him as an artist.
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