Tame Impala is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of their sophomore album, Lonerism, by releasing a new box set on May 26th.
The box set will include previously unreleased demo sessions and songs, and includes a 24 page booklet. Also included is a new artwork design made by Erin Knutson and Immanuel Yang. additional images for the box set were provided by Matt Sav and Kevin Parker.
Parker wrote in an Instagram post that marked the album’s anniversary in October of 2022 that, “difficult to sum up what the album means to me at this point. It was a pretty special time for me making the music. In a way it’s when I truly discovered myself as an artist. Coming off the back of Innerspeaker I had this new sense of purpose… calling… whatever you want to call it. I had finally given myself permission to let music take over my being completely… to become totally immersed in my own world of recording music. So I had this new sense of creative freedom. I felt free to be ambitious, weird, pop, experimental, whatever, and didn’t feel judged because I was finally just doing it for myself and believed in myself.”
Tame Impala last released an album in 2020 titled, The Slow Rush, that was expanded via a deluxe box set in February of 2022. While last year the band contributed soundtracks for Minions: The Rise of Gru and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
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