‘Been Busy’: Tame Impala Teases New Music With Social Media Update

Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker has teased big happenings in the near future, seeming to confirm a new record with his latest social media update.

Taking to Instagram on Saturday (July 13), Parker uploaded a series of images which captured his last few months. Captioned with the phrase “Been busy,” the collection showed pictures depicting Parker with friends and family, behind-the-scenes shots of the promotional video for his Orchid musical “ideas machine,” and snaps of him surrounded by music-making equipment both in and out of the studio.

The last image, however, showed a whiteboard which ostensibly has been used to track the progress of the next Tame Impala album. Notably, all tracks included in the image are listed as “Done.”

The photographic update comes a matter of weeks after Parker previewed new Tame Impala material during a surprise DJ set at Barcelona’s Nitsa Club. “You guys want to hear a new song? “You want to hear a new Tame Impala song?” he asked the crowd. “You’re going to be the first ones to hear it, you realize? There’s no going back from this point on, you realize?”

As it stands, it’s been five years since the last full-length release from Tame Impala. In February 2020, The Slow Rush became the project’s fourth studio record, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. This was one position higher than the previous album, 2015’s Currents, which served as a commercial breakthrough for Parker.

In the time since the last record, Parker has been busy with myriad other projects. In 2023, second album Lonerism would receive a tenth anniversary reissue, and would be followed by the release of the track “Journey to the Real World” for the Barbie soundtrack.

Additionally, Tame Impala would also be credited with remixes of songs from Crowded House and Elvis Presley, and would appear as a guest artist on cuts from Diana Ross and Gorillaz. 

In 2024, Parker would serve as a producer and guest musician for Dua Lipa‘s Radical Optimism album, and would also serve as a guest artist on two tracks from French outfit Justice‘s Hyperdrama album. One of those collaborations, “Neverender,” would see Parker win his first Grammy for best dance/electronic recording in 2025.

Most recently, Justice also announced a series of Australian tour dates for December 2025, with a Tame Impala DJ set listed as the main support alongside Busy P.