Every Song on First Night

Tame Impala returned earlier this month with its fifth studio album Deadbeat – and on Monday, Oct. 29 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the Australian psychedelic rock outfit returned to the stage with its first proper show since a headlining performance at Lollapalooza Brazil in March 2023.

But Tame Impala and its creative mastermind, Kevin Parker, have remained busy. After the arena run in support of Tame’s fourth album, February 2020’s The Slow Rush, was put on ice a couple shows in due to the pandemic, Parker and company returned to the road in late 2021, kicking off two years of heavy touring. Last year, Parker produced much of Dua Lipa’s third album, Radical Optimism, and he appeared on two Justice songs, one of which, “Neverender,” won a Grammy for best dance/electronic recording.

And, with Deadbeat, which continues the evolution of Tame’s original psych-rock sound toward more dance-oriented music, Parker notched another milestone: The set’s single “Dracula” became his first entry as lead artist on the Hot 100, and currently sits at No. 59 on the tally.

At Barclays Center on Monday, and backed by the colorful, elaborate production that has become Tame Impala’s calling card, the group honored its psychedelic history while running through much of Deadbeat for a career-spanning set that reaffirmed its bona fides as one of modern rock music’s biggest draws. To wit, the show was just the first of four Barclays Center gigs for Tame, before it moves on to gigs in Chicago, Austin and California next month.

Here’s a look at the setlist from Tame Impala’s return to the stage at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.