"Patience" | ||||
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Single by Tame Impala | ||||
from the album The Slow Rush (Japanese edition and deluxe box set) | ||||
Released | 22 March 2019 | |||
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Length | 4:53 | |||
Label | Modular | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kevin Parker | |||
Producer(s) | Kevin Parker | |||
Tame Impala singles chronology | ||||
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"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]
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]
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]
Kevin Parker announced the release on 22 March 2019, saying on Instagram that a new song would be released in "one hour". [12]
Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [27] | Gold | 35,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |