Song of the day

"Remember Me", by Tame Impala. It starts off like you could be listening to an early recording from The Chills or The Clean. But after a couple of bars we're headed straight for the garage. What is it with Australia and garage rock revivals? We can't seem to get enough of them. (And of course we were in on the ground floor, with the likes of The Loved Ones, amongst others.) But when the quality is this good, who's complaining? This particular iteration pushes things a bit further: just before the three minute mark they "take it right down"; then they slowly and tantalisingly "bring it right back up again", culminating in a bit of almost-metal riff-o-rama that one (well, "I") cannot resist. Curiously, the vocals, particularly around that point, sound like nothing as much as the strained warble of Eno on his early sequence of "pop" records. Which, of course, only serves to make it more appealing to some of us.