You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Tame Impala is the project of Kevin Parker,
a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Perth, Australia.
Since putting his first EP out in 2008,
he's been nominated for two Grammys and won eight of Australia's ARIA Awards.
Multiple Tame Impala albums have been named Best of the Year.
And as a producer, he's collaborated with Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, The Weeknd, and more.
The most recent Tame Impala album is The Slow Rush, which came out in February 2020.
For this episode, Kevin chose to take apart the song It Might Be Time.
My name is Kevin Parker.
I'm from Tame Impala.
I just started working on this album and I had no idea what the album was going to sound like.
So I started working on this song and it was definitely just the creative,
trying whatever phase, which I think is important.
These songs were coming off the back of doing a bunch of collabs.
So this is kind of when I was starting to get back into working by myself again, which was nice.
I guess jamming with other people, there can be kind of... and anxiety that it's not going anywhere.