Para Lia’s Neverland is a swirling psychedelic rock thunderous wake up call wrapped up in the kind of track that punches you in the throat and demands you pay attention. The song from the first crashing chords and relentless drum beating creating a thick hypnotic atmosphere with plenty of raw punch but layers of guitars and haunting synths swimming about in reverb. René Methner’s vocals, frontman of the band, push his way through the storm, with an urgency and poetic weight, singing lyrics to a protest, not a song.
This isn't just about the music itself, but a sharp critique on modern disillusion where the two most pointed targets of this critique are political doublespeak and societal detachment. Neverland channels the spirit of classic psych rock and injects it with a modern ferocity, that gives Neverland’s sound both a nostalgic and fiercely relevant quality. Production is masterful enough, creating space for each instrument to breathe, whilst the suffocating intensity is never let up and hangs around for a good long time after the last note has been struck.
This track, live, had to be explosive and the sort of song that turns people from a crowd into one electric unit of energy. But Para Lia (the band), prove that rock can still be visceral, thought provoking and utterly immersive. Turn it way up, embrace the darkness and be ready to be haunted.
