Two hours of subpar vocal takes later, he was in full-on freak-out mode.
By the time Parker had loaded up his mixes and fine-tuned the equipment to his liking, it was 1AM. After about 36 hours, he and Regan landed in NYC and headed straight to the studio. Throughout the flights from Perth to Sydney to Los Angeles to New York, Parker didn’t sleep, instead attempting to cobble together lyrics while quietly humming vocal melodies to himself. So he frantically grabbed his belongings, hopped in the cab, and asked his longtime manager, Jodie Regan, to book some overnight studio time in Manhattan. Parker was due to land in New York at 9PM local time and was expected to hand over the album at Sterling Sound the next morning. Two songs, the ones that would become “Reality In Motion” and “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” still needed lyrics. There was just one problem: Parker hadn’t completed the album yet. Mastering is the final step of the recording process, the sonic equivalent of applying the finish to a completed paint job.
But first Parker - the group’s singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, and all-around auteur - was flying halfway around the world to New York’s famed Sterling Sound to have the project mastered. In just a few days, Parker was expected to be in Los Angeles to play Tame Impala’s new album, Currents, for executives at Interscope, the world-famous psychedelic rock band’s new label home. The sun was setting over Perth on one of those early March evenings when a Southern Hemisphere summer is inching into fall. Kevin Parker was still working when the taxi rolled up to his home.
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