Let It Happen (song)

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This article is about the Tame Impala song. For the Jimmy Eat World song, see Chase This Light.
"Let It Happen"
File:Tame Impala - Let It Happen cover art.jpg
Single by Tame Impala
from the album Currents
Released 11 March 2015 (2015-03-11)
Format Digital download
Recorded Kevin Parker's home studio
(Fremantle, Western Australia)
Genre
Length 7:46 (album version)
4:17 (video edit)
Label Modular
Writer(s) Kevin Parker
Producer(s) Kevin Parker
Tame Impala singles chronology
"Be Above It"
(2013)		 "'Let It Happen"
(2015)		 "'Cause I'm a Man"
(2015)
Music video
"Let It Happen" on YouTube

"Let It Happen" is a song by Australian psychedelic rock act Tame Impala. It was released on 11 March 2015 as the lead single from the group's third studio album Currents. A music video for the song was uploaded on 17 August 2015 to the group's Vevo channel on YouTube. The song peaked at number 35 on the Belgian Flanders Tip singles chart, number 84 on the ARIA Singles Chart and number 152 on the French Singles Chart. "Let It Happen" appeared on many critics' year-end lists of the best songs of 2015.

Music video

The official music video for the song, lasting four minutes and seventeen seconds, was uploaded on 17 August 2015 to the group's Vevo channel on YouTube.[1] Stereogum summed up the video, stating that the video's protagonist "blurs the line between nervous breakdown, medical crisis, and hallucination, most memorably when he finds himself strapped to an airplane seat falling through the sky." It was directed by David Wilson.[2]

Critical reception

"Let It Happen" appeared on many critics' year-end lists of the best songs of 2015. Consequence of Sound ranked the song second-best of the year,[3] calling it a "grand statement", "meticulously arranged", and "one of the boldest album openers of the year".[4] The publication also said, "It's the best song [Parker's] ever written from the best album he's ever made."[3] Pitchfork Media placed the song fifth on its year-end list, calling it a "highly intimate, interior experience" that "isn't so much psych rock as psyche rock—the sort of insta-jam that feels like it's being broadcast to you via telepathy rather than a stadium PA."[5] Spin ranked the song seventh on the magazine's list of the year's best songs, calling it "the Discovery of psych-rock, eight minutes of steady vamping that coalesce into an ideal synthesis of Tame Impala’s gentle, kaleidoscopic powers and big-tent EDM’s ability to physically command."[6] The Fader ranked the song seventh-best, calling it "a jittery, stretched-out, immaculately produced sound bath that washes over the listener, beckoning them to submerge in the madness of feeling feels".[7] Time ranked it seventh-best as well, describing it as "mov[ing] through all the states of matter: lava-lamp keyboards give way to gaseous soundscapes, robot voices depose into fuzzy guitar riffs, and stuttering sound effects briefly make you think your speakers are having a meltdown."[8] Paste placed it ninth on their year-end song rankings, calling it the album's "thesis statement" and saying, "The song's multiple movements swell and bloom into the cosmic psych-rock that Tame Impala so cleverly wielded on Innerspeaker and Lonerism, but there's a new dimension added this time around".[9] Popmatters ranked it eleventh-best of the year, calling it "both the album's overture and its thematic peak" while praising it for "hit[ting] a pinnacle for a contemporary indie pop more indebted to classic disco records than Pavement or the Pixies".[10] Rolling Stone ranked "Let It Happen" at number 17 on its year-end list of the 50 best songs of 2015.[11] Noisey named the song the 25th-best of the year, calling it "a near eight-minute tortured wail—as defiant as it is fearful" and "a remarkable, hallucinatory exercise as comfortable in a sprawling cosmic DJ set as it is a dorm room bong sesh."[12]

Track listing

Digital download
No. Title Length
1. "Let It Happen"   7:46

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[13] 84
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[14] 35
France (SNEP)[15] 152
US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[16] 28
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[17] 41

Release history

Region Date Label Format
Worldwide 11 March 2015 Modular Digital download

References

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  14. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Tame Impala – Let It Happen" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  15. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Tame Impala – Let It Happen" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Tame Impala – Chart history" Billboard Adult Alternative Songs for Tame Impala. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  17. ↑ "Tame Impala – Chart history" Billboard Hot Rock Songs for Tame Impala. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
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