Watch Tame Impala Cover OutKast

Tame Impala Cover OutKast

Watch Tame Impala Cover OutKast

Tame Impala Cover OutKast

Here Australian psych champions Tame Impala return to their homeland’s biggest radio station to do Triple J’s consistently successful Like A Version series. In an impressive display of lateral thinking, the band chose a song that suits their strengths while also feeling a bit unexpected: André 3000’s The Love Below paean to perfection “Prototype.” It’s clear Tame aren’t messing about their deep love for the song (despite not recognizing the spoken-word intro to its official video), faithfully recreating most every distinctive aspect of its squishy sighing love-funk, from the future-forward splat-bass and its trebly guitar counterpart to Three Stacks’ dual vocal lines — handled by Tame’s main vocalist Kevin Parker and Tame’s not-so-secret weapon vocalist, Nick Allbrook (he of POND). It’s here, along with its source material, spoken word and all:

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