Watch Tame Impala Debut a New Song on Saturday Night Live

Aussie psych-rock stars Tame Impala made their SNL debut on last night’s Sandra Oh-hosted episode, drumming up hype for their first new album since 2015’s Grammy-nominated Currents by performing its lead single, the recently released “Patience,” and debuting a new song, “Borderline.”

Bathed in kaleidoscopic light, frontman Kevin Parker doesn’t touch his guitar until halfway through “Patience,” a testament to Tame’s continued relocation from the rock show to the dance floor. While Currents found them gravitating more towards a synth-forward, hook-heavy sound, they go full dance-pop on “Patience,” which Paste intern Clare Martin described upon its release as “a dance floor-ready combination of ‘70s disco and ‘90s house, punctuated by uplifting piano.”

Their new song follows suit: “Borderline” is characterized by Supertramp-adjacent keys, the pitter-patter of congas and a set of misfit synths, some oceanic, others a buzzy squelch. Parker doesn’t pick up a guitar at all on this one, instead delivering dance moves and voluminous vocals, including call-and-response-esque choruses in which he sings from the perspective of “a loner in L.A.” who asks himself again and again, “Will I be known and loved?”