The Slow Rush, Tame Impala's fourth album, arrived on Friday (February 14), five years after Currents, the record that turned Kevin Parker's project into an arena act. Pitchfork's review calls the new album an extraordinarily detailed opus whose influences reach from Philly soul and early prog to acid house and adult-contemporary R&B.

The central subject is time, the eternal enemy of perfectionists. Parker spent half a decade dealing with the pressure of following up a record that made him more famous than he could have imagined, and the result is an album that breathes rather than sprints.

According to the review, the record gives up the adrenaline highs but keeps the compositions as rich and thoughtful as ever. Parker, a studio obsessive, builds his own loops instead of sampling, landing on passages that recall Daryl Hall and Jimmy Page.