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Tame Impala - Let It Happen

A giant leap and a natural progression onwards, ‘Let It Happen’ is the Tame Impala comeback everyone’s been waiting for.

11th March 2015

Never ones to fall in line with expectation, Kevin Parker and company announced their return without a word of warning. Having dropped the news like a penny into a well, they simply let it happen, and much like a wish, the band’s new track is an answer to a lot of extended hopes.

Forsaking the thunderously driving guitar lines that dominated the last album, ‘Let It Happen’ is driven almost entirely by synth melodies and staccato rhythms that flood through its core. But in (perhaps the only) typical Tame Impala fashion, the song doesn’t stick with one motif for long. Constantly changing and evolving, it imbues elements of dance, sun-kissed psychedelia, and orchestral strings sounds, all neatly drawn together with Kevin Parker’s distinctive intonations.

“Something’s trying to get out, and it’s never been closer” Parker croons, awash with a dawning excitement. Intricate melodies twirl around; an invitation to move along with the song’s lush and ever-altering soundscape.

It’s been almost two and a half years since Tame Impala hit stratospheric status with the release of second studio album ‘Lonerism.’ A giant leap and a natural progression onwards, ‘Let It Happen’ is the track everyone’s been waiting for.

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