After transitioning to Columbia Records, Kevin Parker has dropped a new Tame Impala single. It's a seven-minute track called "End of Summer," and serves as the psychedelic project's first new song in years.
Tame Impala have been teasing fresh music for a while. Parker first previewed “End of Summer” during a surprise DJ set in Barcelona’s Nitsa Club in early June. Then earlier this month, he shared a series of studio photos on Instagram with the caption “Been busy😉.” (Soon after, an untitled 12″ vinyl record was added to the Tame Impala web store, which promptly sold out.) Despite no official confirmation “End of Summer” is a preview of Tame Impala’s fifth album, Parker’s recent Instagram post features a whiteboard filled with album tracks, including one which appears to be “End of Summer.”
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According to a press release obtained by Billboard, Parker leaned on the history of dance music to recast the new song as a “kind of future primitive rave act.” While "End of Summer" certainly sounds different compared to previous Tame Impala bops, it still retains the same disco elements found in 2015’s Currents or 2020’s The Slow Rush.
The release of "End of Summer" also comes with a Julian Klincewicz-directed visual. The split-screen music video pairs rapid-fire images with grainy footage of Parker performing the track in various locations. While the track is seven minutes, the accompanying film runs just over nine minutes.
“End of Summer” is the first unaccompanied Tame Impala song since 2023’s “Journey to the Real World,” which Parker made for Barbie. In fact, a lot of Tame Impala’s recent music has been made for movies. There was “Wings of Time,” for the film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Parker’s remix of “Edge of Reality,” for Elvis, and “Turn Up the Sunshine”: a Diana Ross collaboration for Minions: The Rise of Gru.
“Turn Up the Sunshine” is just one of several collabs Parker has made since 2020’s The Slow Rush. He did “No More Lies” with Thundercat, “One Night/All Night” and “Neverender” with Justice (the latter song earned Parker his first Grammy Award), “New Gold” with Gorillaz, and “Call My Phone Thinking I’m Doing Nothing Better” with the Streets. Parker has also made official remixes for 070 Shake, the Crowded House, and Justice. As a producer and songwriter, he worked heavily on Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism.
In other Tame Impala news: the group put out a tenth anniversary reissue of their sophomore album, Lonerism, back in 2023. Most recently, Justice announced a series of Australian tour dates for December 2025, with a Tame Impala DJ set listed as the main support alongside Busy P.
Watch the music video for "End of Summer" below.
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Article Image: Kevin Parker of Tame Impala sings and plays guitar at the Governors Ball music festival. (Moffly via DepositPhotos.)
