Lonerism

Kevin Parker wrote and played all of Lonerism by himself, mostly on a laptop while traveling, and the title is the joke and the truth of it: an album about isolation made in total isolation. The songs sound enormous, walls of phased guitar and swirling synth produced to feel like the inside of a great hall, but the lyrics are small and anxious, about a man who cannot connect with the people right in front of him. It sounds like a party he is watching from outside.