The 2015 ARIA Awards take place on Thursday, 26th November. The 2014 ARIA Awards were dominated by Adelaide singer-songwriter Sia and Melbourne producer extraordinaire Chet Faker.
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There are also four publicly voted award categories – Song Of The Year, Best International Act, Best Australian Live Act and Best Video – plus this year Twitter will be giving fans the opportunity to vote exclusively in the Best Australian Live Act category. Once again, this year’s nominees demonstrated the strength of Australia’s independent labels, as acts like Courtney Barnett, Hermitude, Jarryd James, Vance Joy and Paul Kelly presents The Merri Soul Sessions have not only been recognised in the Best Independent Release category, but they’re each up for multiple gongs. Other acts duking it out for Best Rock Album are Dead Letter Circus with Aesthesis, Gang of Youths with The Positions, and The Preatures’ Blue Planet Eyes, while Born Lion, In Hearts Wake, King Parrot, Northlane and Thy Art Is Murder are all in the running for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album. While acts nominated for Best Male Artist include Tom Iansek’s #1 Dads, Daniel Johns, Vance Joy, Jarryd James and Guy Sebastian. But there's still the introvert and obsessive, singing, "all this running around trying to cover my shadow." Yeah, people of this sort tend to have a distorted perspective on themselves: Even if Parker feels like he only goes backwards, people tend to overlook the next line-"every part of me says, go ahead." As if anyone really needed to tell him, "let it happen.Courtney Barnett has some tough competition in the Best Female Artist category, which also features Sia, Meg Mac, Megan Washington and Jessica Mauboy. He's an expert at conveying the unexpected joy of beginner's luck behind the boards. Parker has been praised as a classic rock voice with an electronic producer's mind and that's even more pronounced here, as "Let It Happen" seems to be editing itself in real time with all manner of filters, manipulated vocals, swirling ambience, and a startling midsection where he mashes down the looper button and holds it. Here he's reframing Tame Impala as a band who can not only do Daft Punk and Darkside-acts who looked to recreate a pre-MTV period when rock bands, pop acts, and dance producers had access to untold cash and studio time (and drugs)-but do it better. Parker emerges only when a challenge is worth his efforts. But this is a guy who welcomed comparisons to Pink Floyd and the Beatles and is now featured on one of the year's biggest pop records.
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And yeah, it's a glittery, 8-minute "single" lit by a disco ball rather than blacklights, with no lead guitars and no indication that the new record is even done. Nothing just happens on the first single from Tame Impala's upcoming third LP, and not coincidentally, the title's implications are that Parker's very much aware of the stakes here-when he actually sings "let it happen," it could either be read as a reaction to taking flight or plunging to his death. Parker probably heard "let it happen" countless times in the interim, a variation of "easy does it," "keep it simple," and other aphorisms that perfectionists pay to hear from therapists, gurus, Rick Rubin, and other people who command an outrageous hourly fee just to tell you the same shit your first-grade teacher did. So imagine the effect of spending the past three years playing to increasingly larger crowds and being told you've made a modern masterpiece. And that was true when Tame Impala was starting out merely as a mid-font festival concern and likened to Wolfmother with a straight face. Innerspeaker, * Lonerism-*to put it mildly, Kevin Parker will admit to being an introvert and an obsessive.