To celebrate the10th anniversaryof their acclaimed debut album, InnerSpeaker,Tame Impaladelivers adeluxe vinyl 4LP box setreissue featuring a trove of bonus content. The collection includes new mixes of Alter Ego and Runway, Houses, City, Clouds, instrumentals of Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind and It Is Not Meant To Be, a variety of demo tracks, plus the previously-unheard, side-long Wave House Live Jam. In addition to an array of sonic treasures, the set also includes a40-page bookletand a collage of album sketches.
Recorded in Western Australia and produced byDave Fridmann(The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Weezer),InnerSpeakermerged distinctly modern sonics with vintage psych-rock. Exploring the joy of solitary creativity through songs like Lucidity and Solitude is Bliss, the album also served as a heady introduction to the talents ofKevin Parker– the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and creative force behindTame Impala. In interviews around the LP's release, Parker often spoke about the importance ofInnerSpeaker'sartwork. Australian artistLeif Podhajskyultimately designed the cover, and later collaborated with Parker on the art forLonerism.
Upon its release in 2010, the album won wide critical acclaim from outlets around the globe.PitchforkconsideredInnerSpeakerto be one of the Top 50 Albums of 2010, praising it as a dazzling debut.NMEcalled it a brilliantly confident body of work, whileAllMusicwrote thatTame Impalamake straddling two disparate eras feel like the most comfortable, effortless thing in the world.InnerSpeakeralso won Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards and Rolling Stone's Album of the Year, and received multiple ARIA Award nominations. The LP has since been featured in a variety of Best Albums of the 2010's lists.