Justice and Tame Impala have shared the official video for ‘Neverender’, and introduced a brand new EP that includes remixes of the collaborative track by Kaytranada and Rampa.
The observe serves because the opener of the French duo’s fourth and newest album ‘Hyperdrama’, which was launched in April – marking their first full-length challenge in eight years. Tame Impala (aka Kevin Parker) additionally seems on the minimize ‘One Night time/All Night time’.
As we speak (September 25) Justice have revealed the epic animated visuals for ‘Neverender’. The clip was produced by Cekai and directed by Masanobu Hiraoka with Kota Iguchi (Tokyo 2020 Olympics) and Armand Beraud (IRIS, A Area Opera By Justice).
The sci-fi and space-age-inspired video is described as “a fantasmagoric journey by the minds of Justice and Tame Impala as they discover the world of ‘Hyperdrama’ by way of an animation model that seamlessly fuses basic Artwork Nouveau aesthetics with classic Japanese anime”.
In a press release, Justice defined: “The ‘Neverender’ music video gave us the right alternative to channel lots of our visible influences, all whereas making them extra distinctive by Masanobu Hiraoka’s distinctive reinterpretation.
“Along with longtime collaborators Pascal Teixeira and Armand Beraud, we drew preliminary inspiration from the title sequences of the Eighties anime we grew up on, which set the visible tone for the video.”
They continued: “From there, different key photos from our teenage years naturally got here into play. Whether or not it was the work of Moebius, psychedelic artwork, graphic novels, or iconic movie posters that fascinated us, Masanobu’s model seamlessly absorbed and unified all of them.”
Watch the video for Justice and Tame Impala’s ‘Neverender’ above.
Moreover, the band have introduced {that a} ‘Neverender’ remix EP can be arriving this Friday (September 27). The four-track assortment is comprised of the radio edit of the track, an prolonged model, and new remixes courtesy of Kaytranada and Rampa.
In June, Justice spoke about Tame Impala throughout an interview with NME at Glastonbury 2024 the place the duo headlined the West Holts stage.
“Once we work with different musicians – and this was the case with Thundercat, Kevin, RIMON, Miguel and The Flints – the very first thing is that we have now to like their music,” mentioned Xavier de Rosnay. “Their voice too as a result of we ask them to sing on the file. Most of them are additionally producers and instrumentalists, but it surely’s the voice that we’re actually in search of.
“We all know that after we take heed to Tame Impala or Thundercat, every little thing [of theirs] sounds a bit totally different – however we are able to hear that we have now the identical purpose in music.”
He beforehand instructed NME that Justice had been listening to Parker’s materials “from nearly the start”. Nonetheless, de Rosnay revealed that they as soon as turned down the chance to remix a giant Tame Impala tune.
“To be trustworthy, we favored the primary album, however we actually understood the genius of Tame Impala earlier than the discharge of their 2012 album ‘Lonerism’ after we have been despatched ‘Elephant’ to remix,” he recalled.
“We needed to flip it down as a result of the track was too good. We replied saying: ‘Sorry, we are able to’t consider something we might try this probably goes to make it higher.’ The track was excellent and hitting so many issues proper on the identical time.”
You’ll be able to revisit Justice’s full video interview for NME‘s ‘In Dialog’ collection above.
In a four-star evaluation of Justice’s present at Glastonbury 2024, NME praised the “totally bedazzling” gentle present and mentioned “their stagecraft speaks loud and clear for itself”.
It added: “In fact, they bow out with the immortal ‘D.A.N.C.E’, the one observe that might do – ahem – justice to a present like this. Bubbles float throughout the viewers, the lights onstage stutter as if resisting the tip of the night time and a pair stood close to NME savour the second with a snog. Right here was that fabled ‘Glasto second’.”
Justice are set to hit the highway in North America subsequent month forward of a European tour in late 2024 and into 2025.
