Track Listing

1. Genesis
2. Let There Be Light
3. DANCE
4. Newjack
5. Phantom
6. Phantom
7. Valentine
8. Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
9. DVNO
10. Stress
11. Waters Of Nazareth
12. One Minute To Midnight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46369 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Justice is the moniker of the Paris-based production duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. Their approach to crazy-quilt dance-pop hybridism is infectious, if a tad off-putting here and there. The duo rose to fame due to an MP3 single and super smart video for the excellent, kiddy-chorused house-pop number "D.A.N.C.E." in 2007, and they soon thereafter signed to the suitably named label Banger. They manage to make really silly and fun music in a way that frequently comes off in a pretentious manner. It's ridiculous to name your album after a symbol, especially if it's †. This is not meant derogatorily. Really. Justice does appear to be that rare breed of dance artist equally capable of stimulating the body and the mind, though neither Richard James nor Basement Jaxx need fear this act. After just one listen to "Waters of Nazareth," it's very difficult to avoid wondering "how the hell did they mix and match noise and pop so beautifully" while also dancing furiously.--Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Simply WOW
This is magic, it's not often an album comes along which is just great, this is awesome, i love it, in fact i'm going to hunt down Justice and demand a second album, pronto tonto!!

Fantastic but frustrating
A schizophrenic and typically French mixture of choppy beats and fractured, processed sound. When it works, as on the stunning opener "Genesis" and the stomping closer "One Minute To Midnight" it's the equal (if not the better) of the best of contemporaries Mirwais and Daft Punk. The clipped and arrythmic Genesis is one of the best Parisian dance tracks I've yet heard, and the production has incredible depth and impact. However, when the music doesn't work it's confusing, irritating and even embarrassing. This is most often on the vocal tracks where there is either just too much going on in the mix(DVNO) or the vocal is annoying and the lyrics puerile (The Ppaarrttyy, D.A.N.C.E.). Definitely worth buying for the five or so decent tracks - just have the skip button ready for the ones you don't like.

Buy Idealism instead!
I have to say I agree 100% with Captain Pang - Idealism is a far better album for me. Justice seem to make things too cluttered, and as a result it's messy and not very danceable and not very listenable.