Artist: Tame Impala
Title Of Album: Lonerism
Year Of Release: 2012-10-08
Label: Modular Recordings / MODCD157RT
Genre: Indie, Psychedelic
Quality: 320 / FLAC
Total Time: 78:14 min
Total Size: 177 / 517 MB

Tracklist:

СD1
01 Be Above It
02 Endors Toi
03 Apocalypse Dreams
04 Mind Mischief
05 Music to Walk Home By
06 Why Won't They Talk to Me?
07 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
08 Keep on Lying
09 Elephant
10 She Just Won't Believe Me
11 Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
12 Sun's Coming Up

СD2 - Rough Trade Bonus Disc
01 Apocalypse Dreams (Live)
02 Elephant (Live)
03 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Live)
04 Elephant (Todd Rundgren Remix)
05 Elephant (Canyons Wooly Mammoth Extension)

Lonerism is the second album by Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala, set to be released by Modular Recordings on 5 October 2012. Like their previous album Innerspeaker, most of the recording was undertaken by Kevin Parker.

Kevin Parker started writing and recording new material for Lonerism almost immediately after releasing Innerspeaker, saying "I started writing songs straight after Innerspeaker, but I told myself I wouldn't get hung up with the pressure, so I kinda pretended they were for some other weird project that wasn't going to have as much consequence".^[13] While Innerspeaker was recorded in a very structured manner with a designated time period to record, Parker recorded Lonerism in many different places around the world whilst touring with Tame Impala. Speaking about this, Parker revealed "I've got a recording thing with me at the moment, I can do vocal takes and guitar takes wherever I am, so it's getting recorded all over the world. There's a guitar take in Vienna, or a vocal take in the aeroplane from Singapore to London. I've got my studio at home, so a lot is being done in Perth."^[14]
With the success of Innerspeaker, Parker had "So much more time. With Innerspeaker, we had an engineer come in, we booked a location, we got a house; it was all very official. With this album, it was just me in my home studio. I still had two other housemates, but Tame Impala paid for one of the rooms with the band account and all the money we got from festivals. I started so soon after finishing the last album, so it ended up being two years before the label was expecting to see something. There was time to experiment and completely indulge."^[15] With the extra time to record, Parker gave into his desire to make "cheesy pop" songs and said "I've got a whole album waiting for Kylie Minogue. That sounds like a joke, but I actually do. I have seven songs ready."^[15]
In late 2010, Parker ran into some problems with the new album: "I had all these demos, half of the new album, on my iPod. And I've got a hole in my bag and it fell out somewhere between Amsterdam and London. So I've been really freaked out recently that the album's just going to turn up on YouTube, half finished, or that it's just going to come out under some other Dutch band name."^[16] The demos were later found and returned to Parker.^[17] Parker later relocated to Paris in 2011 and "crammed into this little Paris apartment, which looks like a reclusive bunker".^[13]
The recording of the album was completed by late 2011, while the mixing of the album was started on 7 December, 2011 and completed on 2 March, 2012, with Parker again enlisting the help of famed producer Dave Fridmann after Fridmann mixed previous album Innerspeaker

On 27 June, 2012, Tame Impala uploaded a short trailer for the album, featuring a snippet of the outro to the song Apocalypse Dreams set to various video footage shot during Tame Impala's Innerspeaker tour, and revealing the title to be Lonerism at the end.^[21] On 9 July, 2012, the entire track Apocalypse Dreams was released for free download, showing a poppier side to their psychedelia, and a more lavish and expansive sound. It was also revealed that the first single from Lonerism would be released in late July, 2012, entitled Elephant.^[22] On 13 July, 2012, details of the new album emerged, including the album artwork and track-listing. The release date was also revealed with Lonerism set to be released on 5 October, 2012, in Australia, and worldwide by 9 October, 2012.^[23] A deluxe edition of Lonerism will follow the regular release, with Tame Impala taking in suggestions from fans about what to include with it.^[23] The first official single from Lonerism, "Elephant", was released on 26 July, 2012.^[24] Parker revealed that "Elephant" "is actually one of the oldest songs that I have, it's just been in the vaults this whole time. I'm not sure why we never recorded it before, but we were just playing it at a sound check one night and everyone in the band was like, "We should just put this on the album", and so we did."^[25] "Elephant" features a bluesier side of Tame Impala, heard more frequently on their EP, as the song was written around that stage. Because it was written around that time "Elephant" is "an anomaly on that album. There are no other songs that have that bluesy riffing. That's kind of why we put out "Apocalypse Dreams" before "Elephant", because we didn't really want the first thing to come out to be too misleading. The rest of the album is pretty psychedelic, with melancholy melodies and sounds. I guess it's a lot more like "Apocalypse Dreams". But at the same time, "Apocalypse Dreams" is pretty different as well.^[26] On September 6, the album was leaked