Best songs to wake up to Tame Impala
Top 10 Tame Impala tracks most likely to actually get you out of bed, ranked by a blend of Spotify popularity, tempo, and energy. Every song here works as your iPhone alarm with Alarmify.
Our top 3 picks
New Gold (feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown)
Eventually
Borderline
Sound profile
Across these ten tracks Tame Impala averages 117 BPM with high intensity, ranging from 78 BPM on the calmest cut to 152 on the most uptempo one.
Audio range
- Tempo
- 78–152 BPM avg 117
- Energy
- 62–92% avg 79%
- Mood (valence)
- 16–87% avg 60%
About Tame Impala
Kevin Parker records as Tame Impala from a home studio in Perth, layering analog synths, fuzzed guitar, and reverb-soaked vocals into something that sits between psych-rock and modern pop production. The catalog spans the languid sprawl of Currents and the tighter, dancier turn on The Slow Rush. For a wake-up rotation, that translates to a wide tempo window and bright, diffused textures that build instead of jolt. Songs like Borderline and The Less I Know the Better open with a steady groove and let the layers stack, which makes them work as music you wake up into. Best paired with a fade-in volume curve and a few minutes of grace before you actually move.
Full ranking
Ordered by Spotify popularity, filtered for energy over 50%.
Dracula - JENNIE Remix
The Less I Know The Better
Dracula
Borderline
Let It Happen
New Person, Same Old Mistakes
Eventually
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
New Gold (feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown)
Is It True
Why these Tame Impala songs work as alarms
Not every hit track is a good wake-up track. A slow ballad hiding in someone's top 10 can sabotage a morning, and a song that starts with 12 seconds of silence defeats the whole point. So this list is filtered. We start from Tame Impala's top tracks on Spotify, drop anything with energy below a reasonable wake-up threshold, then rank by how popular they are with listeners. Ten tracks guaranteed to actually pull you out of bed without making the morning feel like punishment.
Tempo matters more than people think. Research on sleep inertia points to music between 100 to 130 BPM as the sweet spot for shaking off grogginess without shocking your system. Slower than 90 BPM and you're still half-asleep at minute two. Faster than 150 and it's aggressive before coffee. This artist's average is 117 BPM, which sits right in that sweet spot.
How to actually use this
Pick a track that matches how you want to feel at 7 AM. If you hate mornings, start with something mid-energy like Eventually and pair it with Alarmify's gradual volume ramp so it fades in over 90 seconds instead of hitting at full blast. If you need an aggressive start, set New Gold (feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown) and skip the ramp. Either way, the song plays from Spotify in the background, the alarm still fires through Do Not Disturb, and you're not relying on the iOS Clock app to do something it literally can't do.
Alarmify+ vs free
On the free plan you get 30-second clips of any of these songs as your alarm, unlimited alarms, and the iOS 26 AlarmKit integration. On Alarmify+ ($49.99/year, week free trial) you get the full track playing until you dismiss, Smart Wake with a 30-minute window so it catches you during light sleep, the sleep-cycle calculator, and the gradual fade-in. Both plans need a Spotify Premium or Apple Music subscription if you want the full song instead of clips.