Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker let his love for Deftones and Queens of the Stone Age shine by in a current interview.
Throughout an look on Amoeba’s What’s in My Bag series, Parker walked by a few of his favourite, most significant albums of all time. Watch it beneath.
After speaking briefly about how a lot he loves music from bands like Silverchair and Coldplay, Parker opened up about being an enormous fan of Deftones’ White Pony album. “I used to be obsessive about this album,” stated Parker. “I had been into plenty of nu steel stuff since I used to be a child. Deftones was actually the one which carried me by my teenage years.”
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“It’s one other album the place [if] I hear songs now, it virtually hurts to listen to them,” Parker continued. “It takes me proper again there to being a fragile human.”
Parker additionally spoke at size about Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R album, calling it a “crucial album for my musical upbringing” and saying the songs “made me really feel like I used to be on medicine earlier than I even took medicine.”
“This album taught me that rock music may be exhausting, but additionally completely attractive,” Parker added, earlier than revealing how his guitar is “tuned down due to this album. I nonetheless haven’t tuned as much as customary tuning.”
He continued, “Queens of the Stone Age undoubtedly modified the way in which I play guitar — I went from simply making an attempt to be as offended and angsty as attainable to similar to being actually managed.”
Parker launched his most up-to-date Tame Impala album, Deadbeat, in October. Learn our evaluate of one of the Brooklyn shows on his current US tour.
He’s presently on an Australian run forward of dates in Europe and the UK subsequent 12 months. See the complete schedule on the Tame Impala website, and get tickets here.
