“Lucidity” by Tame Impala

"Lucidity" grew out of the 2009 sessions for Innerspeaker, and Modular sent it out in 2010 as the album's second single. This one is Kevin Parker's private universe: he wrote it, sang it, played it, recorded it and produced it, and the only other name in the credits is Tansie Bennets, on handclaps.

It's a song that keeps rearranging the furniture. The verses, in A major, ride a heavy rhythmic strum; a fuzz guitar picks up the vocal melody and worries at it through the pre-chorus; then the chorus swerves into G major and the whole room tilts. The second verse runs only half as long as the first, and a short guitar solo slips in on the way through. Leif Podhajsky, the Australian artist behind the Innerspeaker cover and later Lonerism's, made the single's artwork too.

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