{"id":2442069,"date":"2019-03-24T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=811968"},"modified":"2019-03-24T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T12:00:29","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-tame-impala-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-tame-impala-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Tame Impala, \u2018Patience\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The pianos and strings that open Tame Impala<\/a>\u2019s wonderful new song evoke classic house music at its most radiant and redemptive. But as is almost always the case with Australian psych-pop song sculptor Kevin Parker, \u201cPatience\u201d is immediately revealed to be more complicated than that first heraldic rush of music might imply. The drums drift, and the melody that emerges is as smeared as it is sunny, as if you\u2019re hearing the song coming from two tents away at a festival, or from an amazing party just over the horizon. It\u2019s the sound of a utopia that\u2019s either coming into focus, or slipping through our grasping fingers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Parker sounds like he\u2019s beaming his vocals back to earth from a spaceship. \u201cWhat you doing with your luck?\u201d he asks, and then answers his own question \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m just growing up in stages\u201d \u2014 heightening the mood of sweetly self-assured ambiguity.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a mood that Parker does better than almost anyone. It\u2019s made him an avatar of the kind of happily ironic psychedelia that\u2019s become a hallmark of forward-leaning pop in the last few years, and a reason he\u2019s been tapped to work with artists as diverse as Lady Gaga and Travis Scott.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPatience\u201d is a coming-of-age song that implies growing up is beside the point, because the vague possibilities of wherever the journey takes you are more fun than the destination, anyway. \u201cAll my days are shapeless,\u201d Parker sings, sounding thankful for every gooey one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n