Modular People

Tame Impala capped off an exceptional year of international acclaim by taking out the 2010 J Award for album of the year for their debut album, InnerSpeaker. The award acts as a signpost for a destination the quartet has been headed towards since the release of their debut EP in 2008, and no doubt a brief rest stop before the band continues onwards and upwards, to infinity and beyond.

Conceived mostly inside the head of principal songwriter and bedroom boffin Kevin Parker, InnerSpeaker was recorded when the band decamped to a house overlooking the Indian Ocean in Injidup. Since it's inception in this isolated outpost in Western Australia the record has found it's way onto the stereos and into the hearts of fans, critics and their musician peers all over the world, with the universal reception overwhelmingly warm.

Although released in May, InnerSpeaker is continuing to connect with fans across Australia and otherwise, and will see the band on the road until mid-2011, by which time, if the talk is to be believed, album 2 will already be well underway.

Tame Impala and Modular would like to thank the triple j staff and their listeners for their ongoing support of fresh Australian talent.