If you like Tame Impala, try these 6 artists

Somewhere around the second chorus of "The Less I Know the Better", a lot of us went looking for more. Kevin Parker, the Perth musician behind Tame Impala, built a sound that is fuzzy, warm and a little lonely, and it lives on a thousand late-night playlists from Innerspeaker to Currents and on to the band's 2026 Deadbeat tour.

Everyone knows the first names that come up next. These six go a step or two sideways: the people in his orbit, the cult favourites, and a band from Delhi that fits more neatly than you would think. Our picks, built on the sound, the mood and the production. All the artists like Tame Impala are collected on our Artists Like page.

1. Pond

The family tree starts here. Pond are also from Perth, share members with Tame Impala (Jay Watson plays in both) and Parker played drums on their early records. Where Tame Impala is polished, Pond are loose, loud and a bit chaotic, with glam and synths flung everywhere. Start with "Paint Me Silver".

2. Mild High Club

Alex Brettin's project is the soft, jazzy side of psychedelia: lazy chords, wobbly tape feel, vocals that drift in and out. If the slow-motion groove of "Let It Happen" is what you come for, the song to start with is "Homage".

3. Khruangbin

A Houston trio who barely sing, and still make you feel something. Their guitar lines swim in reverb over dub-heavy bass and drums that sit way back in the pocket, with Thai funk and soul records as a reference point. It is the same hazy, headphones-on feeling, minus the vocals. Start with "Maria También".

4. Altın Gün

An Amsterdam band who play Turkish folk songs from the 1970s through fuzz guitar, analog synths and a locked-in groove. You will not understand the lyrics unless you speak Turkish, and it does not matter: the psychedelic pull is the same. Start with "Goca Dünya" from the album On.

5. Peter Cat Recording Co.

Our home-scene pick. The Delhi band, fronted by Suryakant Sawhney, write crooning, late-night songs with horns, warped keys and a dry sense of humour, closer to a smoky lounge than a festival field, but the dreamy production will click with Currents fans. Start with "Floated By" from the 2019 album Bismillah. We have a page for them at /artist/peter-cat-recording-co, and wrote about the Kolkata duo Parekh & Singh earlier today if you want the other side of that scene.

6. Allah-Las

Los Angeles four-piece with a debut from 2012 that sounds like a lost surf-garage record found in a thrift store. The guitars chime, the drums are dry and the melodies stay in your head. It is Tame Impala's sunny cousin: less studio wizardry, more basement jam. Start with the debut, and "Catamaran" in particular.

Where to go from here

Press play on the first two and see which one grabs you. If you want a few more, our If You Like Slowdive list goes further down the dreamy road, and Tame Impala himself has more at /artist/tame-impala.