''Tame Impala'' is the second

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(EP) by Australian musical project

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, 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", "

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" and "Skeleton Tiger". All three received national radio airplay on the

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network. "

" 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

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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 Wesley Watson is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a touring member of the psychedelic band Tame Impala and as a co-founder of the psychedelic rock/pop band Pond, with whom he's record ...

– keyboards on "Forty One Mosquitoes Flying in Formation"; drums and backing vocals on "Wander" (iTunes bonus track) Production * Kevin Parker – producer, mixing and artwork *

Mandy Parnell Mandy Parnell is a British mastering engineer and founder of Black Saloon Studios in London, England, where she serves as the senior mastering engineer. Parnell has worked on projects with a wide variety of artists, including Aphex Twin, Bjork, ...

– mastering * Greg Moore – mastering (12" vinyl edition)

Charts

References

External links

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