Behind the Covers

Tame Impala

2 album covers in our archive

Tame Impala is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 2 album covers from the 2010s. Released across Modular Recordings and Modular / Interscope labels, the artwork sits in the alternative, indie, electronic, rock, pop tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, digital manipulation, symmetrical, colorful, spiral. Below you'll find the full story behind each Tame Impala cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.

Lonerism by Tame Impala — album cover art

Lonerism (2012)

Australian designer Leif Podhajsky created this kaleidoscopic masterpiece by digitally manipulating a simple photograph of trees into a swirling vortex that perfectly captures the album's psychedelic introspection.

Label
Modular Recordings
Designer
Leif Podhajsky
Genre
Alternative, Indie, Electronic
Decade
2010s
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Currents by Tame Impala — album cover art

Currents (2015)

Robert Beatty's abstract image of swirling liquid in vivid colors visualizes the album's theme of overwhelming change — something solid becoming liquid, a form dissolving and reforming as something new. Not chaos, but metamorphosis.

Label
Modular / Interscope
Designer
Robert Beatty
Genre
Rock, Electronic, Pop
Decade
2010s
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