Tame Impala - Let It Happen
“It’s a conundrum of a song that demands to be listened to over and over again to solve the puzzle”
“It’s a conundrum of a song that demands to be listened to over and over again to solve the puzzle”
If we need to feel as though we are in another world, we will play Tame Impala. Let It Happen from the band’s 2015 album Currents is our go-to, mainly because of its repetitive but deeply entrancing use of a three-bar loop. Despite clocking in at an impressive eight minutes, the time whizzes by as you are taken through a brain-boggling musical experiment. The song creates that kind of alien experience with a combination of airy synths and powerful bass, as well as Kevin Parker’s heavily reverbed...