The piano riff and congas evoke the feeling of taking a disco trek, which is truly sublime alongside Parker’s lyrics about the journey that is life as seasons change and time passes. While KP may be reckoning with his own increasing age, he certainly has not stopped having fun, and this song is definitely made for dancing– more so than any Tame Impala song that has preceded it.

He sings, “I’m growin’ up in stages/ living life in phases,” and indeed his music has changed greatly since the psychedelic guitar driven days of Innerspeaker and Lonerism. Parker begins the song by asking “Has it really been that long/ did I count the days wrong?” And as the song progresses the lyrics that follow reflect on how the 33 year old, recently married, musician is not the 24 year old he was when he released Innerspeaker. I played the song on my speakers and sunk into a couch to take in the beautiful new sounds Kevin Parker offered us.Īs floored as Tame’s synths might leave you, the grooves in “Patience” are too powerful to stay couch locked and I found myself up and gigging around my living room. I couldn’t help but chuckle when I saw “Tame Impala- Patience” pop up in my friends’ feeds.

Thursday night at 9 o’clock in California, I, along with so many others across the world, frantically refreshed Spotify, eagerly awaiting the new Tame Impala track Kevin Parker promised us an hour before on Instagram.

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