Each week, our Songs of the Week column highlights the best new tracks from the last seven days. This week, we dig into Tame Impala’s latest single “Loser,” the second offering from their upcoming album Deadbeat.

10 years ago, Kevin Parker released a Tame Impala song called “‘Cause I’m a Man” for the band’s beloved third album, Currents . A lot like “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” and “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” “‘Cause I’m a Man” took aim at habitual fuck-ups and the excuses that men make when they can’t escape their own destructive patterns, blaming biology with a clever shrug and letting the song’s majestic chorus do most of the talking.

This theme of Parker lamenting his inherent flaws resurfaces with even sharper self-awareness on Tame Impala’s latest single, “

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