The opener Parker heard as the obvious one
Justice, Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, released Hyperdrama on 26 April 2024, on Ed Banger, Because and Genesis. It was their first studio album since Woman in 2016. Neverender opens the record. It runs 4 minutes and 26 seconds. Augé, de Rosnay and Kevin Parker wrote it. Parker, who records as Tame Impala, sings it. Justice produced the album. The other song with Parker, One Night/All Night, had already come out as a single on 24 January 2024, paired with Generator. Neverender arrived with the album. It came back as a single on 27 September 2024, with an EP that held a radio edit, a longer version, and remixes by Kaytranada and Rampa.
The duo flew to Los Angeles and played Parker six tracks, not only the one they had in mind for him. He picked the obvious one at once, then asked to try something that would not sound like Tame Impala. The obvious song became Neverender. The other became One Night/All Night. De Rosnay later said the ice broke in about half an hour and that it felt like three people in a band. Justice played Neverender live for the first time at Coachella on 12 April 2024, two weeks before the album. A lyric film by Léo Pouliquen went up on release day, the words running on an oscilloscope.
The animated video, out on 25 September 2024, was directed by Masanobu Hiraoka with Kota Iguchi and Armand Beraud, and produced by Cekai. Augé and de Rosnay said they started from the title sequences of the 1980s Japanese cartoons they grew up on, then pulled in Moebius, poster art and graphic novels, and let Hiraoka’s drawing hold them in one picture. The same album also has Rimon, the Flints, Connan Mockasin, Miguel and Thundercat. Neverender is the door: Parker’s high sung lines, a beat that stops and comes back, and the first minute of a record Justice had not made in eight years.
It took us maybe half an hour to break the ice completely, and then we really felt like just three guys in a band together.
(Xavier de Rosnay, GQ, 2025)
On 2 February 2025 the recording won the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording, at the premiere ceremony. None of the three was in the room. Host Justin Tranter accepted it. It was Parker’s first Grammy, after earlier nominations for the Tame Impala albums Lonerism, Currents and The Slow Rush, and Justice’s third, after a remix of MGMT’s Electric Feel and the album Woman Worldwide. Hyperdrama runs just under 50 minutes across 13 tracks. The song to hear is the album version from April 2024, the one that opened the record and the Coachella set, before the radio edit and the remix EP.
