Songfacts®:

• Clocking in at 9:36, this electronic track closes out Rüfüs Du Sol's 2016 sophomore album, Bloom. Against the backdrop of swirling synths and a robotic beat, vocalist Tyrone Lindqvist sings about the ache of unrequited love. He knows he's wasting his time pining for someone who doesn't return his feelings, but he can't help but pledge his devotion in the bridge, where he repeats the phrase, "If you want me, if you need me, I'm yours."
• The Australian alt-dance trio, who debuted with Atlas in 2013, wanted a change of scenery for their second album. They rented out an Airbnb in Berlin, where they set up a small studio and started writing songs inspired by the emotive electronic music they were hearing in local clubs. "Innerbloom" is a prime example of the ambient, textural vibe that influenced their songwriting, but it was never meant to be a track on the album. The band had most of the songs written when they decided to just let loose and have fun playing around in the studio - until they landed on the chords for "Innerbloom."
  
  "To be honest it was one of the fastest songs to come out," Lindqvist confessed in a 2016 interview with Music Times. "We didn't think, we just kept writing. We were certain it wouldn't end up on the album because it followed no rules and it seemed too far removed from what people might like from us. We didn't really think about it, we just did whatever we wanted and it ended up being a 9 1/2 minute song that we all fell in love with."
• After coming up with the chords, the bassline, and the beat, Lindqvist wanted to see where the song would guide them without an end point in mind. "Let's see it through and picture ourselves being in the desert, listening to this as the sun comes up. What do we want to feel? And let's go there," he recalled in a 2019 feature with Australian radio's Triple J.
• As the band started building textural elements into the track, keyboardist Jon George told Triple J a "warm fuzzy feeling like a VHS" emerged. "We wanted to elaborate on that by starting to warp the pitch and bend that a little bit throughout the track and give it that sort of old home tape feel," he said.
• The band thought outside the box when creating the different textures on the track. For example, drummer James Hunt told Triple J that the crackle is actually the sound of a match being struck.
  
  "You can hear the chemical reaction, almost like the oxygen coming off the match," he said. "It's got this breath and this weird squeal. It could sound like an alien life-form or a reel of tape disintegrating."
  
  They also found a percussive, rim-like effect in a set of construction sounds, specifically a block of wood dropping on concrete. The spinning string sound starting around the five-minute mark was created by using a ring modulator on a sustained chord.
• The bassline was inspired by Italian-German composer David August's 2014 techno track "Epikur."
• Need more cowbell? The band thought so. Inspired by the cowbell-heavy track "Let's Go Dancing" by Audion and Tiga, they incorporated the percussive element to bring life to the song's last drop.
• Bloom is Rüfüs Du Sol's second #1 album in their native Australia. Its lead single, "You Were Right," became their first Top 40 single on the country's ARIA Singles Chart. "Innerbloom," its third single," peaked at #65 on the tally.