PSYCHEDELIC pop rock band Tame Impala are the newest kids on the music block.

Despite a helter skelter beginning which saw the band do home recordings purely for the enjoyment of their friends, Tame Impala have won over the music fans of Australia with their unique brand of music.

Having just released a self-titled album the band has already signed up for various festivals around Australia.

One of which was the fourth annual Rollercoaster Festival in Mandurah. Drummer Jay Watson spoke to On The Barrier about their place in the Australian music scene.

"I think the Australian music scene is quite stale," Watson said.

"Our music is all quite introspective psyche kind of music, it's sort of pondering personality and reactions to other people…the music is quite cerebral."

Unusual descriptions aside, Tame Impala definitely bring something new to the table.

They're psychedelic pop/rock sounds have been derived from the Beatles and Radiohead.

Watson credits their sound to the band having listened to liberal amounts of music.

"We're all what you would call complete nerds," he said, "We don't go out; we listen to records all day… heaps of stuff from all years."

The general writing process for the band tends to only include Parker who writes as much based on imagination than on actual experiences.

"Kevin gets these images in his head, and one was walking through a tunnel, sort of prowling, so he just wrote it around visual image of massive bony tiger," Watson said.

"That became Skeleton Tiger.

"There're a few songs like that where it's a blazing image of something put across."

Their album was recorded at home which Watson said gave it a certain atmosphere.

He didn't think the band was likely to opt for a big recording studio or a producer for their second album.

"The thing is that it doesn't matter how good or well-known or respected the producer is, even if you were thinking about Rick Reuben (Slayer, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and more recently Metallica), they still wouldn't get (our music) as much as we do," Watson said.

"We really appreciated the sound of (our songs) the way we record them."