By the mid-2010s, he was collaborating with Mark Ronson, producing Gaga and inspiring Rihanna (who covered “New Person, Same Old Mistakes”).
Later that month, on 22 April 2015, Tame Impala officially released 'Let it Happen' as the second single from the album. A few hours later the band released the first official single from the upcoming album on Facebook called ''Cause I'm a Man'. As Parker has looked further inward, his music-and musical circle-have continued to expand outward. On 5 April 2015, Tame Impala announced and released the album cover for Currents in a Facebook post. On 2012’s Lonerism, he loaded up on synths, found inspiration in Todd Rundgren and locked into woozy pop grooves made of both dreams (“Be Above It”) and nightmares (“Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”). His appetite for guitar experimentation-powered by an arsenal of reverb, phaser, delay and fuzz pedals-made his 2010 debut album, InnerSpeaker, one of the year’s standout indie releases. “The idea of doing what I’m already good at is boring because it’s always gotta be a little bit frightening.” That fear has been a powerful motivator for Parker, who started Tame Impala in 2007 from his Perth home. “I’m the most creative when I’m uncomfortable,” Parker told Apple Music.
The brainchild of Australian musician Kevin Parker, the band have served as both a blistering and blissed-out exercise in expansion-of sound, space and the mind. Tame Impala have transformed psychedelic rock-and 21st century pop-in such an impactful way that even Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Kanye couldn’t resist their influence.