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Solitude Is Bliss

"Solitude Is Bliss"
Tame Impala Solitude Is Bliss single art.jpg
Single by Tame Impala
from the album Innerspeaker
Released 1 April 2010
Format Digital download, 12" Vinyl, Promo CD-R
Recorded June–August, 2009
Wave House, Injidup, Western Australia
Length 3:55
Label Modular Recordings
Songwriter(s) Kevin Parker
Producer(s) Kevin Parker
Tame Impala singles chronology
"Sundown Syndrome"
(2009)
"Solitude Is Bliss"
(2010)
"Lucidity"
(2010)
"Sundown Syndrome"
(2009)
"Solitude Is Bliss"
(2010)
"Lucidity"
(2010)

"Solitude Is Bliss" is a song by Tame Impala, released as a single in 2010. It was recorded during the sessions for the Innerspeaker album in 2009, and released as the first single from that album. The single features artwork from Australian artist Leif Podhajsky, who also created the artwork for Innerspeaker and the follow-up Lonerism. "Solitude Is Bliss" came in at number 33 in the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2010.

"Solitude Is Bliss" was written by Kevin Parker in the key of F major in a 4/4 time signature. It is based around the barre chords of D major, C major, Fadd11 and Gadd11.

The song starts off with heavily phased strumming of the above-mentioned chords on an electric guitar. A drum fill comes crashing in to provide the rhythmic accompaniment along with the bass guitar. This gives way to the verses, which feature funky, heavily rhythmic picking of the root notes of D, E, G and A. The pre-chorus features the sustained chords of A major and B flat major, with Parker's vocals jumping between the two stereo channels, due to the wide automatic double tracking.

The chorus then comes in featuring soaring vocals from Parker that have been heavily delayed and reverbed, featuring the same D major, C major, Fadd11, Gadd11 chord progression as the intro.


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