Well it did come before the music in a way, 2,000 years before. As trained graphic designers, it would be easy to imagine the strong visual concept came before the music. Again the concept is simple and almost Warholian: to extricate a symbol with so much meaning attached to it and pass it off as your own, is an audacious postmodern annexation worthy of Drella himself. The rood of Justice is rarely spoken about, but its abiding presence brings an added dimension to the duo, the aphonic third member in an unholy trinity. Through it all - from the highs of touring to the recent five years of laying low - there has remained one constant: the cross. There’s really only one way you can go from there. † is a finely-tuned, turbocharged thrillride poised, streamlined and controlled and featuring innovative banger after innovative banger, making Justice one of the most vital sounding pop groups on earth in 2007. ![]() They set the bar too high for themselves from the off by releasing a debut that was a game changer, 21st-century dance music’s own Fosbury Flop (its influence on Skrillex and other purveyors of EDM over the pond is well documented). To be clear, Audio, Video, Disco would be considered a masterpiece in the canon of most other bands, but Justice aren’t other bands. ![]() They were victims of their own successes - not that they would ever regard themselves as victims. Indulging in prog fantasies is a dangerous business, and can precipitate punk exploding in your face if you’re not careful.įollowing an era defining debut like † was always going to be a precarious trip along a dangerous path, and Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay approached it in their characteristic fashion, dancing insouciantly through a minefield. There was some kind of plan in place, presumably to channel Goblin, King Crimson and other ornamental 70s rock behemoths through the medium of electronic music and turn everything up to eleven what we got was a form of musical libertarianism run riot. Their second outing, 2011’s Audio, Video, Disco, wasn’t a bad album per se, it just suffered from a lack of direction. Justice are always at their best when their concepts are clearly defined.
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