With this track, this playlist finishes a year and I am stoked. It's a milestone for me certainly: I have learnt so much about my own perceptions of music and why I listen to what I do listen to. Which is why I am doubly excited about this week's track. Nothing like this has featured here before. It marks a growth in my own music library and the trajectory of my music tastes.
Let it Happen. A great lesson for the New Year, isn't it? This is a track I cannot stop listening to. I start my day with it. It pumps me in the morning and alleviates my tired old soul in the evenings. This synth-pop/ psychedelic rock track by Australian band Tame Impala track is about self-acceptance and constant change, about being at peace with transitions and with oneself and mostly about allowing oneself to surrender to one's surroundings. The music reflects that too, going from hammering beats reflecting "all this noise" that is "always around" to this repetitive loop that finally finds release in ecstatic liberating music accompanied by senseless lyrics. But there is the key: life is senseless--and has been since the day humans started walking the Earth. Making sense of it is a waste of time but allowing it to just happen is comforting and enjoyable.
With this track, I have diversified my playlist beyond measure and I promise to bring even more flavour next year to make sure you continue to feel and Be Alive.
Give your New Years resolutions list making a soundtrack and let "Let it Happen" blast wherever you go.
You can learn more about Tame Impala here:
About the curator - Aarushi Aggarwal
Aarushi is a senior at college and is majoring in history and international relations. Her music library is as much home to jazz as it is to Indian classical. Her passion for discovering new music far supersedes other equally important things like finishing assignments on time. She loves dogs, coffee and chocolate.
