Lil Yachty "Breathes Deeper" in Tame Impala Remix

one of the most unexpected collabs we’ve ever gotten,  

 this gives me waking up at 3am in 2007 [to watch] Adult Swim vibes,

and

I couldn’t stop laughing at first but it’s actually kinda fire

…are just a few of the top comments beneath the music video for Tame Impala’s latest release. While traversing hallucinogenic landscapes, frontman Kevin Parker and feature artist Lil Yachty rework “Breathe Deeper,” a sleeper hit from Parker’s fourth studio album The Slow Rush. Decked out in his finest Sun Ra threads, Yachty grooves to a technicolor bass line, carving out new dimensions in the subsphere of psychedelic rap.

It’s an odd pairing – Yachty’s “bubblegum trap” layered over Parker’s shoegaze synth riffs. But an alt-rocker and a rap legend find common ground in the disco stylings of Breathe Deeper’s production: ascendant piano chords that conjure Sunday mornings and 70s nostalgia.   

In both sound and form, the duo embraces old-school tradition. Parker’s vocals are all but absent from the track, relegated to pre-chorus echoes as Yachty freestyles for three verses. Over buoyant melodies, he mines city skylines for psychedelic visuals; “Lookin' in her eyes, see the meadow // Lookin' at her lips, pillow kiss, it's the wet throat…She say she never been to the ghetto// Put her on the tab, turn thе hood to a disco.”

A haze of SoundCloud funk reverberates through “rooftop parties” and fleeting moments of vulnerability. “I hope when you said you love me, that you mean it,” Yachty intones as the outro swallows the last micrograms of his acid tab.

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Lil Yachty’s “Breathe Deeper” remix is the lead track from The Slow Rush B-Sides, dropping in 2022. The tracklist features remixes from Blood Orange, Maurice Fulton, and Four Tet - along with new tracks “No Choice” and “Boat I Row.”