Five years after his world-conquering third record, Kevin Parker returns with his full immersion into pop on the The Slow Rush. A culmination of his previous albums, Tame Impala’s fourth outing revels in Parker’s brand of kinetic psychedelia, folding elements of disco, soft rock, funk, R&B and the ear of a modern day hip hop producer into his ever-rotating kaleidoscope. Parker buries this free-flowing approach to musical cross-pollination beneath his layered psych-pop symphonies with a breezy touch. More than on any other Tame Impala record, the songs on The Slow Rush are entire worlds to lose yourself in. Luxuriant and lavish, the seemingly endless sonic pleasures of his fourth record dreamily unspool themselves. The Slow Rush finds Parker in a contemplative mood, obsessing over the passage of time. Floating above in his Lennon-esque falsetto, he decries getting lost in nostalgia, reflects on his unlikely career trajectory, reckons with his relationship to his father and meditates on the uncertainty of the future. Kevin Parker has spent a decade now in a constant state of metamorphosis, continually redefining the Tame Impala sound while never losing grip of its essence. With his rich and inventive fourth album, he pulls it off again.