Swirls have today released their new video for the track titled ‘Neverland’, from their upcoming album ‘Surge’, dropping March 6th via Howlin’ Banana and À Tant Rêver du Roi.
‘Neverland’ doesn’t announce itself. It drifts in quietly, like a thought you didn’t realize you were already having. Swirls builds a world here that feels suspended in time – not forward-moving, not nostalgic, but somewhere in the soft space between the two. The video isn’t interested in telling you a story so much as inviting you to linger inside a feeling.
Visually, everything breathes. Motion is fluid, unforced, and deliberately unpolished in the best sense – like something half-remembered rather than fully documented. The camera doesn’t chase meaning; it allows it to surface naturally, guided by light, texture, and subtle shifts in tone. There’s a gentle disorientation at play, the kind that makes you lean in instead of pull away.
Swirls’ presence is woven into the environment rather than placed above it. This isn’t performance as spectacle – it’s presence as atmosphere. The result feels intimate without being confessional, abstract without being distant. You’re not watching someone perform for you; you’re sharing space with them.
What makes ‘Neverland’ resonate is its refusal to hurry. In a culture built on immediacy and impact, this video chooses patience. It trusts mood over momentum, sensation over statement. And in doing so, it creates something quietly absorbing – a visual companion that doesn’t demand attention, but rewards those willing to give it.
‘Neverland’ feels less like a destination and more like a state of mind. You don’t arrive there so much as realize, halfway through, that you’ve already been there all along.
About ‘Neverland’
Following the release of their well-received first single ‘Powerstation’, Nantes-based slacker punk quartet Swirls unveils ‘Neverland’.
A restless journey through identity, confusion, and the refusal to grow up. It’s the portrait of someone drifting between several versions of themselves, searching for freedom in the middle of the chaos. ‘Neverland’ was the very first track to emerge at the beginning of the writing process for Swirls’s second album. It sits somewhere between the innocence of the first record Top of the Line (2024) and the urge to grow, to move forward. A loose, arpeggiated guitar sketches the tightrope life is walking on. The bass pulls us into an almost-solo during the bridge – a trip we’re not quite sure we’re ready to own. The drums barely manage to hide their desire to never settle down, and the vocals stumble all the way to the final seconds of the track.
About Swirls
Formed in Nantes (France) in 2022, Swirls began with a simple idea: make noise with style, and preferably without too much effort. Between crunchy amps, spontaneous urgency and friends taking the piss out of each other, the band forged a raw, laid-back aesthetic inspired by the Australian punk scene (The Chats, Eddy Current Suppression Ring or Drunk Mums) while also glancing toward the wider international garage-punk universe, from Parquet Courts to The Hives. Some listeners even pick up the occasional flicker of Strokes-style indie rock, discreet but definitely there.
In 2024, the band released their debut album Top of the Line on Howlin Banana Records and À Tant Rêver du Roi: a direct, impulsive record, capturing the way you’d light a makeshift campfire, no instructions, just conviction. Critics praised its urgent sound, endearingly fragile edge and catchy riffs, a set of songs that work just as well on record as they’re meant to be experienced live. A year later, Swirls return with a second album that turns the dial up a notch without losing the spark of spontaneity. If Top of the Line sounded like the slightly scruffy, slacker older child of rock, Surge is its electric little brother: sharper, nervier, and a touch more self-aware.
Featured image by Jodie Roszak.
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