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CONCERT REVIEW: Tame Impala @ First Unitarian Church, 4/27
Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala played in front of a sweat-soaked crowd at the First Unitarian Church last night.
CONCERT REVIEW: Tame Impala @ First Unitarian Church, 4/27
Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala played in front of a sweat-soaked crowd at the First Unitarian Church last night. The crammed basement was littered with broken bottles and spilled beer, and the sauna-like temperatures ensured that everyone present was feeling the heat. The venue wasn’t the only thing on fire, though, the four-piece group from down under shredded in a series of psychedelic delights that blasted the audience into outer space and back.
Harking back to the glory days of trippy tunes, Tame Impala’s set featured effect-heavy riffs and astral synth lines — think early Pink Floyd with a good dose of Revolver-era Beatles thrown in for good measure. The band succeeded in moving the crowd with their fuzzy but fluid set with songs like “Solitude is Bliss” and “Lucidity” that got the entire floor swaying and jumping. Their dilated pupils all were focused firmly on the giant projector screen behind the band as it responded to sound and morphed to the pulse of the song, entrancing the starry-eyed crowd until the show’s conclusion at midnight.
Overall, Tame Impala put on a really impressive show. Expanding upon their recorded catalogue of tracks, the four bare footed bros from Perth took each song and brought it to new levels — exploring various jams, breaks, and tempos that showed of their musicianship and improvisational skills, especially in their epic closing number. Some songs that run for four minutes on the album went on for eternities, yet still managed to stay fresh and captivating without any dull or dragging moments. Although the mild mannered and soft-spoken Aussies didn’t take over the stage with overwhelming charisma or antics, their music was a more than adequate way to capture the crowd in a technicolor haze of sounds and visuals that left the audience craving more.
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