Parker has been praised as a classic rock voice with an electronic producer's mind and that's even more pronounced here, as 'Let It Happen' seems to be editing itself in real time with all manner of filters, manipulated vocals, swirling ambience, and a startling midsection where he mashes down the looper button and holds it. Here he's reframing Tame Impala as a band who can not only do Daft Punk and Darkside-acts who looked to recreate a pre-MTV period when rock bands, pop acts, and dance producers had access to untold cash and studio time (and drugs)-but do it better. Parker emerges only when a challenge is worth his efforts. But this is a guy who welcomed comparisons to Pink Floyd and the Beatles and is now featured on one of the year's biggest pop records. And yeah, it's a glittery, 8-minute 'single' lit by a disco ball rather than blacklights, with no lead guitars and no indication that the new record is even done. Nothing just happens on the first single from Tame Impala's upcoming third LP, and not coincidentally, the title's implications are that Parker's very much aware of the stakes here-when he actually sings 'let it happen,' it could either be read as a reaction to taking flight or plunging to his death. Parker probably heard 'let it happen' countless times in the interim, a variation of 'easy does it,' 'keep it simple,' and other aphorisms that perfectionists pay to hear from therapists, gurus, Rick Rubin, and other people who command an outrageous hourly fee just to tell you the same shit your first-grade teacher did. So imagine the effect of spending the past three years playing to increasingly larger crowds and being told you've made a modern masterpiece. And that was true when Tame Impala was starting out merely as a mid-font festival concern and likened to Wolfmother with a straight face. Innerspeaker, * Lonerism-*to put it mildly, Kevin Parker will admit to being an introvert and an obsessive.

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