Justice

Justice - † (Cross)

Justice wants to make you dance. These French boys, Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé, owe as much allegiance to the dark, sexy synth sounds of Italian disco as they do to the robotic electro drums of Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock” or Cybotron’s “Clear”. But the accomplishment only arrives with the brazen attitude that surrounds the whole affair: the exercise of dicing a track apart, and applying snarling static and overblown guitar distortions as a fixing adhesive, without ever loosing eye contact of what keeps the dance floor flooded. The big beat of “New Jack” is interrupted by a transformer with loose wiring, yet the repairing hand wiggles the defect perfectly in time to the beat. “Genesis” opens with the heavy thud of ominous bass drum, as a warning to villainously fun that lies ahead. The charmer is kid’s choired sing-a-long “D.A.N.C.E.”, friendly enough for grandma, but still enough kick to get tired feet hustling to the middle of the floor.