Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Constructed around a thick, bouncing bassline and swirling analog synthesizers, this track signaled Kevin Parker's shift away from pure guitar-rock toward intricately produced, kaleidoscopic pop music. Lyrically, it tackles the frustration of cyclical romantic failures through heavily reverberated, John Lennon-esque vocal melodies. The song's massive critical and commercial success helped re-establish psychedelia as a dominant force within 2010s mainstream alternative music.