Kevin Bronson on August 8th, 2015

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Australian rockers Tame Impala turned the Fairbanks Lawn at Hollywood Forever Cemetery into stoned psych picnic on Friday night, their second of two outdoors L.A. shows in support of their third album “Currents.”

Playing bathed in multi-hued lights — their visuals ranged from rainbow-colored scribbles to amorphous splashes of color to shape-shifting geometrics — Kevin Parker led the band through a set that actually included more of their second album, 2012’s “Lonerism,” than their widely acclaimed new release.

The show started with a giant white drape in front of the stage, on which were projected oscilloscope-looking shapes that reacted to the intro music. When the curtain dropped, they went into “Let It Happen,” one of five new songs repped in set. The others: “The Moment,” “Eventually,” “The Less I Know the Better” and the big, swooping single “’Cause I’m a Man.” They played three songs from their 2010 debut “Innerspeaker,” including “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind,” and seven from “Lonerism,” ending the show with a two-song encore from that album, “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” and “Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control.”

Photos by David Benjamin