Cross
Justice
Producer: Justice
Vice Records, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: 2564629862
EAN: 0825646298624
UPC: 825646298624
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Justice (Electropop): Xavier De Rosnay, Gaspard Auge.
Additional personnel: Uffie, Felix Zadek-Ewing, Harriet Syndercombe-Court, Francesca Levin, Aubrey Allegretti, David Christopher Ragusa, Matthiew Cullen O'Keefe, Demitri Mitchell-Palmer, Dvno (vocals).
It could be said that electronic musicians have a tendency to obsess over sonic detail in a way that your average garage rock band may find hard to understand. The young Parisian duo Justice (Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay), seem, for the most part, unfettered by niceties such as sonic subtlety or restraint. Combining French-touch house with large doses of heavy-metal hedonism, the group's debut, CROSS, privileges rock's devil-may-care mid-range thrash over electro's low-frequency thump.
The album, in classic rave style, is all about colossal riffs. Whether through its swirling synth sweeps or pile-driving funk loops, CROSS has an insistent, torqued, vaguely druggy quality that's resolutely unsubtle. If the album embraced such high-octane thrills for its entire length, it would surely have overstayed its welcome. But Justice manages to pull out a corker of a pop-crossover hit with "D.A.N.C.E.," the album's first single. Instantly hummable, with its Sesame Street style sing-along chorus, the song is an ebullient, slightly nostalgic nod to '80s electro-funk. Reminiscent of another album that ignited a youth culture revolution (Daft Punk's HOMEWORK), Justice seem intent on winning a new generation over with their head-banging house music.
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Part of France's Electro House movement based around the Ed Banger label, the duo Justice broke internationally following the release of their 2007 album, CROSS, and its crossover single, "D.A.N.C.E.," both of which were nominated for a Grammy. The duo, comprising Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay, take a dark, almost punk, approach to making their electro-flavored club music, and they've brought their talents to bear on remixes for tracks by everyone from DFA 1979 and the Klaxons to Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
