I’ll forever be adamant that I was born in the wrong era. I should have been born in the 60s. Surrounded by the sounds of Jefferson Airplane, sat under a tree watching everything pass me by. I could do that now, but it wouldn’t be the same. The feeling I get from listening to Grace Slick’s eerie voice is different to those who heard her the first time round. Regardless, I still love her and regard her as possessing one of the most distinctive and inspiring voices ever.

I’ve always been drawn to music that makes me feel like I’m in another time or just throws me some place else, some place better. There’s always something better, everyone knows it. This is why I love bands such as Warpaint, The xx, Foals, Kurt Vile, Boards Of Canada, The Kills- they provide escapism for me. I love that. I love feeling part of something that is just me and a piece of music. Some may see this as a bad thing, I don’t. It just fuels my imagination even more.

Tame Impala are my saviour. Okay, okay that could be a bit extreme- but seriously, listen to them. But listen through headphones so you can truly feel it. So that part of you that you’ve ignored comes alive. I’ve been listening to them most of the day, and I swear they have caused me to feel things I haven’t felt in a long time- I think contentment is one of them. Listening to them is an emotional experience. Even if you shut yourself off from the lyrics, the music alone just transports you to this place of solitude.

The album, Innerspeaker opens with the euphoric It Is Not Meant To Be. I think right now, hearing this song made me think. We all waste time on what isn’t right, I think this song made me realise this. “I don’t have a hope in hell, I’m happy just to watch her move.” Everyone has felt this way. The sheer sadness of knowing you do not have a chance with the one person you want. It happens to us all, some more than most.

The band captures the whole psychedelic sound in a way Pink Floyd did when they first started. I’m not really a fan of Pink Floyd, well, not after the psychedelic era anyway. The way the whole sound just causes you to see everything in shapes and colours. It’s just a bloody wonderful experience.

That’s what listening to Tame Impala is- an experience. With a lot of bands, you just listen and you feel the same feelings that you feel towards other bands. Yet with Tame Impala, it’s like an outer-body experience. It takes over.

Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind is beautiful, “Give me a sign! Am I wasting my time? Living in my head. You’ll be sorry when I make up mine instead.” This is perfect to listen to when you are being messed around, well maybe not perfect because it might make shit worse, but you know. You know how you feel, but the other is holding back- always the way isn’t it.

The album needs your undivided attention. Lucidity and Solitude Is Bliss are just mind-blowing. Everything on this album just catapults you freely and you go willingly because you know it is for the best.

If you ever wish, like I do, that you were around in the 60s to be part of the psychedelic era then please listen to and fall in love with Tame Impala. Life can be quite disappointing. People can be disappointing. New music can be disappointing- but let Tame Impala in, and just forget everything around you.