Blog: The Passion of the Weiss

We attempt creativity but often wind up re-telling the same stories with similar adjectives. So we get song titles like "Apocalypse Dreams," the new track from Tame Impala that sounds like it was named after a 70s horror re-make spied during a late night bong rip binge watching the Sci-Fi network. The movie stars Teri Garr. Because it does. By any conventional logic, Tame Impala should be trite. They are Perth psychedelic rockers who basically ride the middle-ground between Revolver and early Dungen, but add few new wrinkles or ideas to the equation. Even the name [...]

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