ThereвЂ™s one more precursor to Currents that helped set the stage for this deserved coronation of Kevin Parker: Daft PunkвЂ™s 2013 album Random Access Memories.В Two years after its release, it still looms in background of the music industry like an omen. His path on stage during вЂњLet It HappenвЂќ takes on the same path as Tame ImpalaвЂ™s third album, Currents,В one of the most revolutionary pop statements of the 21st century. This is his psychedelia, a brand new kind, that uses musical dissolves to blur the internal and external borders of the song. From analog to digital, from the past to the future, Parker moves between them without friction or fanfare. He knows a RickenbackerвЂ™s history, and he knows whatвЂ™s imbued on MIDI controller on a guitar. Now, the unmistakable sounds of вЂ™80s disco, Moroder, Ratatat, and French touch start to seamlessly burrow their way into the song and in from the crowd in the mid-afternoon it all swirls and swims together in one gorgeous, soluble moment of modern music The jingle jangle of the Rickenbacker is a distant memory, replaced by a synth guitar trying to sound like a guitar. Then he sends his guitar through the synth processor and plays a slick computerized riff. Mascis Jazzmaster with a MIDI controller plugged into the output.ДЄt an auxiliary mic on the other side of the stage, he sings some into a vocoder in tight, three-note harmonies. Half-way through the song, it literally skips into a different section, like a needle caught in the groove, and whorls of synth strings start to crest over the drums and bass.В Parker puts down his Rickenbacker and picks up a new Fender J. Behind him, the band chugs at a beat somewhere between motorik and disco. On stage, Parker strums his Rickenbacker with a funky rhythm that sounds more like ChicвЂ™s Nile RodgersВ under hypnosis. The unmistakable jangle of a Rickenbacker can be heard all throughout Tame ImpalaвЂ™sВ first two albums-2010вЂ™s Innerspeaker and 2012вЂ™s Lonerism-as a nod to nascent days of rock and psych music. It was the same clanging, metallic tones of a Rickenbacker that George Harrison got on the famous opening chord of вЂњA Hard DayвЂ™s NightвЂќ the same one that Pete Townshend played on early Who songs like вЂњMy GenerationвЂќ the same guitar that transformed Simon & GarfunkelвЂ™s вЂњSound of SilenceвЂќ from dowdy folk song to a hit in 1965. The Rickenbacker has up until this point been one of ParkerвЂ™s favorite guitars, with good reason: Its semi-hollow body helped define the roots of rock вЂ™nвЂ™ roll in the 1960s.

Kevin Parker is handsome and shoeless, like a poster boy for H&MвЂ™s messianic chic campaign.В He wears a plain white t-shirt and a navy blue infinity scarf that hangs just above his beautiful Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo guitar. Tame Impala kick in to вЂњLet It Happen,вЂќ the best song they have ever written, in front of hundreds of college stoners and wizened MGMT fans at Governors Ball earlier this summer.

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