End Of Summer

Album: Deadbeat (2025)
Charted: 87
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  • You might not expect a man best known for turning inner monologues into shimmering psych-rock epics to suddenly go raving in a field, but that's where Kevin Parker, the one-man universe behind Tame Impala, seems to have ended up on "End of Summer."

    Released on July 25, 2025, as the first taste of Tame Impala's fifth album, the song is seven minutes of pulsating bliss. It marks Parker's most radical shift since his 2015 album Currents, which saw him pivot from lush, guitar-driven psychedelic rock to a mix of electronic, dance, R&B, and synth-pop.
  • "End of Summer" trades Tame Impala's fuzzed-out guitars and warped reverb for acid house squelches, percolating synths, and pulsating bassline. According to publicity materials, the goal was to "recast Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act."
  • Lyrically, "End of Summer" is classic Parker: wistful, self-effacing, and emotionally knotted. It reads like a farewell to a lover but could just as easily be Parker addressing his former psychedelic self, or maybe even his fans who've watched him drift from rock stages to DJ booths with the quiet confidence of a man who owns more than one modular synth.
  • Parker gave the song its live debut in June 2025 during a surprise DJ set at Nitsa Club in Barcelona, where he teased the crowd: "You guys want to hear a new Tame Impala song? There's no going back from this point on, you realize?"
  • The nine-minute music video, directed by Julian Klincewicz, offers a split-screen glimpse into Parker's studio life and outdoor solitude. It's part documentary, part dream sequence, and very much Parker: existential, lo-fi, and vaguely Californian.
  • "End of Summer" is Parker's Columbia Records debut, a move that signals his full migration from cult icon to major-label shapeshifter.
  • "End Of Summer" won the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording at the 2026 ceremony.

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