Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has revealed that he slept through his recent Grammy win as he “forgot they were even on”.
At the ceremony on February 1 in Los Angeles, Tame Impala came away with the Best Dance/Electronic Recording prize for the single ‘End Of Summer’, their second consecutive win in that category, after also winning it for ‘Neverender’ in 2025.
Those might be the only two Grammy wins of Parker’s career to date, but as he revealed in a recent interview with Mac DeMarco for Interview Magazine, he was not aware of the momentous occasion as it was happening.
“Look, I’m going to be dead honest with you,” Parker said. “I forgot they were even on.”
“I forgot that I was nominated as well,” he continued. “You have to imagine my confusion because in Australia, we wake up and then we find out about what happened in America last night, so my phone has absolutely blown up. I’ve got 30 messages on my phone, all saying congratulations. None of them are saying what for. And I’m like, ‘What for, motherfuckers?’”
‘End Of Summer’ was released in July, a sprawling seven-minute tune inspired by the acid house movement and the lead single from the fifth Tame Impala album ‘Deadbeat’.
That record received a three-star review from NME when it arrived last year, and our review noted how “Parker has grown outside his comfort zone, only to strike a kind of lyrical inertia that becomes detrimental to his new vocabulary of music”.
Parker will also be heading to the UK and Europe for an extended run of arena shows in April and May, including shows in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Dublin (find tickets here), before the tour then heads to North America later in the summer.
Parker has also been confirmed as joining A$AP Rocky, WILLOW, Lil Yachty and more to feature on Thundercat’s first album in six years, ‘Distracted’, while he was recently spotted in the studio with members of Geese, Pond and King Gizzard.
