Patience (Tame Impala song)

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"Patience"
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Single by Tame Impala
from the album The Slow Rush (Japanese edition) and Deluxe Box Set)
Released22 March 2019 (2019-03-22)
Genre
Length4:53
Label Modular
Songwriter(s) Kevin Parker
Producer(s) Kevin Parker
Tame Impala singles chronology
"The Less I Know the Better"
(2015)
"Patience"
(2019)
"Borderline"
(2019)

"Patience" is a song by Australian psychedelic music project Tame Impala. It was released as a single on 22 March 2019 through Modular Recordings. [1] It was written and produced by Kevin Parker, and was his first single since "The Less I Know the Better" in 2015. [2]

Contents

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, Parker was nominated for Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year for his work on this track. [3] Complex magazine ranked "Patience" as the 25th-best song of 2019, [4] while Billboard ranked it 64th on their list of the best songs of 2019 [5] and Triple J ranked it 52nd in the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019. [6]

Composition

The track has been characterised as a "psych-disco bop", [7] a "beat-driven, atmospheric soft-rocker", [8] a "yacht rock cruiser", [9] and a "playful, dancey spin on the Perth band's psychedelic pop". [10] According to a press release the song was inspired by 1970s disco and 1990s house. Rolling Stone described the song as Parker singing "airily over a bright, colorful groove". [11]

Promotion

Kevin Parker announced the release on 22 March 2019, saying on Instagram that a new song would be released in "one hour". [12]

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [27] Gold35,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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