Fresh from the success of his APRA Award win for Song of the Year, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has kept the good news coming.
While the band are still touring their critically acclaimed third record Currents until September, Parker is already making new music.
“I’ve got my own recording studio in Perth, just down the road from where I live, so there are all sorts of things going on,” he told AAP at the awards show where his song Let It Happen scooped the big prize.
“I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax. But at the same time making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally, just like a brain process,” he added.
Parker admitted the process was still in its early stages, and he’s unsure about where the new music will end up. “I don’t really know what it is until it’s finished. Like I don’t know if it’s for Tame Impala or if it’s something I’m going to write for someone else, because I’ve been wanting to do that a lot more.”
Hot on the heels of his music making and award wins, which includes a recent Brit Award for Best International Group, Parker has also been busy at work as a producer. He worked alongside fellow Perth locals Koi Child on their debut self-titled studio record, which was released last month.
“He’s amazing. Kevin did all of this as if it was nothing,” frontman Shannon Patterson revealed in a recent interview.
“He brought a lot of assurance to the table. There were a lot of times during the album where we weren’t really sure about certain sections and Kev would help us with stuff like that. He’d do a lot of cutting the fat…Most of the set-up was his. Especially his drum sound. It was fascinating for us to see how he set the drums up – his process of recording us,” Patterson said.
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