A night of rock: Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala will perform in Jakarta on April 29.(Courtesy of Modular Recordings)

Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala will head to Indonesia to perform their first ever show in the country.

The band’s performance, scheduled for April 29 at Parkir Timur Senayan in Jakarta, is part of their promotional tour for their third and latest album, Currents, which was released in July last year through influential Australian independent label Modular Recordings.

Prior to their Jakarta show, the band will also make a stop at Singapore’s ultra-hip Laneway music festival, before continuing on to Europe and South America.

Formed in 2007 in Perth, Australia, the Grammy-winning band began as the solo bedroom project of Kevin Parker, who recorded all the band’s earliest songs on his own, playing all the instruments himself.

Parker began uploading his songs to then-popular social-media/music-sharing website Myspace. Parker released some of these recordings as a limited release EP cheekily titled Tame Impala H.I.T.S. 003 through the underground label Hole In The Sky.

Eventually, the tracks found their way to Modular Recordings, and the label signed Parker in 2008.

As being signed meant he had to begin performing live, Parker enlisted musicians Dominic Simper and Jay Watson, on bass and drums, to help him bring the songs to the stage (the band has since gone through multiple lineup changes, with Parker as the only constant member).

Modular also released the band’s first major release, another EP, this time simply titled Tame Impala EP (though often mistakenly referred to as “Antares, Mira, Sun” due to the writings of those words on the album’s cover sleeve).

The EP gained the band rapturous hype, with many praising the band’s classic-rock flavored take on psychedelic rock and Parker’s production – as well as his John Lennon-like vocals.

In 2010, the band released their debut album Innerspeaker, again through Modular, recorded in large beach shack just outside of the band’s hometown, with Parker noting the influence that the ocean view had on the overall music. The record quickly gained steam, both with critics and music fans.

The title, as Parker explained to music website thequietus.com, was “kind of just a silly term I came up with the try to explain the feeling you get when you’re at your most inspired, the idea that it just appears to you vividly and if someone plugged a stereo into your brain they’d be able to hear it”.

Aside from its critical acclaim, many noting the 1960s psychedelic rock influence on the album, Innerspeaker has since gone on to be included in many best-of lists.

The band’s winning streak continued with the follow-up album Lonerism, released in 2012. As its title suggests, the album evoked Parker’s feeling of loneliness and isolation and features a good amount of moody ambient soundscapes recorded on dictaphone.

According to the band leader, the album was a mix of his love of legendary US musician Todd Rundgren’s 1973 album A Wizard, A True Star, as well as contemporary pop music, such as Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue.

The album went on to win both Best Rock Album and Album of the Year at the 56th annual Grammy Awards.

Currents was then, unsurprisingly, also released to critical acclaim, with critics praising its emotional magnitude, interpreted by some reviewers as being a breakup album of sorts. Parker himself has admitted to being obsessed with the album’s production, citing the album as “my heart and soul, my blood, sweat and tears”.

Tame Impala’s Jakarta concert will be opened by Barasuara, one of Indonesia’s fastest-rising bands, known for their lively performances and ethnic-infused alternative rock.

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