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\n\tKevin Parker<\/a> is taking the Deadbeat <\/em>route.<\/p>\n \n\tThe celebrated psychedelic pop artist and production wizard is lining up his fifth Tame Impala<\/a> album, Deadbeat<\/em>, for a global release Oct. 17th<\/sup> \u2014 his first through the Sony Music machine.<\/p>\n \n\tDeadbeat <\/em>is inspired by the \u201cbush doof\u201d culture of his native, Western Australia rave scene, and recasts his ongoing art project as \u201ca kind of future primitive rave act in the process,\u201d reads a statement.<\/p>\n \n\tThe second taste from Deadbeat<\/em> is \u201cLoser,\u201d a track that\u2019s accompanied with a music video directed by Kristofski<\/a> and starring Stranger Things<\/em>\u2018 Joe Keery (aka Djo). It\u2019s the followup to lengthy electronic banger \u201cEnd of Summer,\u201d which arrived, fully formed, in July of this year.<\/p>\n