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Perth is one of the most isolated cities on the planet. Cloistered in the southwest corner of Australia, it’s closer to Sumatra than to Sydney. It’s the former frontier country, the sort of place where secessionary sentiments always simmer and Wild West analogies are journalistic cliché.

The last decade saw a handful of Australian acts achieve international fame: Wolfmother, the Vines, Jet, Cut Copy and the Avalanches, but all of them hailed from either Melbourne or Sydney. Perth’s musical claim to fame is that it produced Bon Scott; but he was born in Scotland, moved to Sydney to achieve success, and even after that, things didn’t exactly go as planned.

So consider Perth-based Tame Impala’s breakout success, testament to their dazzling and disorienting debut LP, “Innerspeaker.” Released on the Modular Recordings imprint, a label best known for dance-pop and heavy rawk, the geographic isolation of Perth manifests itself in frontman Kevin Parker’s decision to turn towards the stars for inspiration instead of his immediate surroundings. Song titles include “Runaway Houses City Clouds” and “Solitude is Bliss”—to say nothing of their debut EP, “Hole in the Sky.”

Hissing fuzz ricochets off psychedelic guitar lines and dust-caked drums—Parker’s voice is frequently buried in effects, making it seem like it’s tunneling out of another dimension. “Innerspeaker,” bears a heavy debt to its inspirations: “Revolver”-era Beatles, Cream, Love, and contemporary Swedish psychedelic wunderkinds, Dungen. Yet its intensely melodic beauty makes questions of derivation seem moot. It taps into a universal yearning for escape—the desire to disappear into a pair of headphones and map out one’s own cosmology.

Consequently, Tame Impala has crafted an album capable of playing in Perth or Peoria. In Southern California, with its perennial surfeit of sun and spliffs, the band has already attracted a sizable following, selling out a pair of shows tonight at the Silverlake Lounge. In advance of the performance, Kevin Parker spoke to Pop & Hiss about his album, making music in Perth and his impression of Los Angeles cannabis clubs.