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Exactly ten years ago today, the psychedelic pop project Tame Impala appeared on the radar with their debut album Innerspeaker and brought the multi-talent Kevin Parker a brilliant place in the Australian music scene.

Innerspeaker is now considered a key figure in the collection of an Australian music fan and marks itself as Tame Impala's debut album, which triggers a solid career for front man, leading actor and studio recorder Kevin Parker.

The album itself was recorded in a cabin on a remote beach in Western Australia in winter 2009, where there was a clear lack of internet, telephone and television functions. Although Parker wanted to keep the entire making of the album under his own wing, he finally asked Dave Fridmann (producer, Flaming Lips) for help and found that the album should sound "absolutely explosive".

Unfortunately, iTunes accidentally released the album just a week before Innerspeaker debuted for immediate purchase rather than pre-order because the new psychedelic album leaked over the internet in a poor quality format.

Despite his humble beginnings and the fact that Innerspeaker had an early leak before his debut, he managed to consolidate in his rightful place of legendary Australian music, with good grades from numerous critics and number 18 in the hottest 100 Australian Triple J.'s albums All time in 2011.

Today is the tenth anniversary of Innerspeaker, so let's take a quick look back at how much this album has affected Australian music in the past decade and we'll hear from some key fans what the album means to them.

Check out "Solitude Is Bliss" by Tame Impala

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Though Kevin Parker had released several EPs under the name Tame Impala before the debut album, Innerspeaker saw itself as the first time that the project received widespread attention not only in Australia, but around the world.

Although the album was not yet ten years old at the time, Tame Impala entered the global market last year and headlined the California Coachella 2019 festival.

Innerspeaker has not only traveled around the world with listeners from all over the world, this album also seemed to set the Australian psycho-rock movement in motion, bring the genre onto the global stage and act as an influence for other key bands.

Since its creation just a decade ago, it has grown from a tiny hut to a global album, received double platinum certification from ARIA, has been chartered worldwide, and was named Rolling Stone's Album of the Year in 2011, and was also awarded the J Awards in 2010 recognized as Australian album of the year.

Check out "Lucidity" by Tame Impala:

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Listening to "Tame Impala's" Half Full Glass Of Wine "in 2008 was nothing compared to the full length that followed less than 18 months later. We had a taste of what Kevin Parker was preparing thanks to tracks like" Sundown Syndrome "(and his cover of" Remember Me "), but when Innerspeaker was unleashed, it was like nothing else we had ever heard. It was powerful, accomplished and, above all, a game changer, and one that made it clear that Australian music was at its peak, all for a long haired guy named Kev. " –Tyler Jenke, editor of Rolling Stone Australia

“As with only the best psycho-rock albums of the time that Tame Impala was inspired by, Innerspeaker has aged perfectly. His thick fuzz guitars and hazy, intoxicating soundscapes have influenced the formation of garage bands around the world and still sound as exhilarating as a decade ago when this spectacular debut was made. " –Jesse Delauney, freelance writer

Check out Tame Impala's "Expectation":

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