''Tame Impala'' is the second

extended play An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

(EP) by Australian musical project

Tame Impala Tame Impala is the psychedelic music project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker. In the recording studio, Parker writes, records, performs, and produces all of the project's music. As a touring act, Tame Impala consists of Parke ...

, released on 11 October 2008 by

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. It reached number 1 on the Australian Independent Record Labels (AIR) Chart and number 10 on the ARIA Physical Singles Chart. Three singles were released from the EP: "Desire Be Desire Go", " Half Full Glass of Wine" and "Skeleton Tiger". All three received national radio airplay on the

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network. " Half Full Glass of Wine" reached number 75 on the

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. The song is also featured on the Hottest 100 compilation CD/DVD. It was reissued in 2013 as part of the

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with the track "Wander" making its first appearance on vinyl.

Recording

The songs on the EP were selected from a list of approximately 20 songs that Kevin Parker had recorded as far back as 2003, which he had sent to their label

. Speaking about the EP release Parker said "Most of the songs on the EP were never meant to be heard by the rest of

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, let alone the rest of the world. They were just recorded for my own listening sake, and burning a CD of it and putting it in my car and giving it to my friends." Parker also revealed that "the EP was not in anyway recorded for an EP. The songs that were on the EP weren’t even recorded at the same time, they were done over a bunch of years."

Artwork

Kevin Parker's original artwork caused some confusion with the EP title and many believed it to be called ''Antares Mira Sun''. The artwork is an interpretation of a slide he saw in an astronomy lecture, which demonstrated the difference in size between the stars

Antares Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius. It has the Bayer designation α Scorpii, which is Latinised to Alpha Scorpii. Often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion", Antares is flanked by σ Scorpii and τ ...

Mira Mira (), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–400 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a vari ...

and the

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. "The cover art is meant to be a painting; an interpretation of a diagram, so those labels are just there to make the diagram make sense. But lo and behold, there were reviews coming out saying "And Tame Impala's new EP ''Antares, Mira, Sun''.""

Track listing

Personnel

* Kevin Parker – vocals and instrumentation on all tracks, except for: *

Jay Watson Jay Watson (born 27 May 1990 ) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the psychedelic rock bands Tame Impala and Pond. Watson records solo material under the name GUM and, as of 2 ...

– drums and backing vocals on iTunes bonus track "Wander"; keyboards on "Forty One Mosquitoes Flying in Formation" Production * Kevin Parker – producer, mixing and artwork * Mandy Parnell – mastering * Greg Moore - mastering (12" vinyl edition)

Charts

References

External links

Tame Impala
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