Justice
Cross

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TRACKLISTING: 1 Genesis, 2 Let There Be Light, 3 D.A.N.C.E, 4 Newjack, 5 Phantom, 6 Phantom Part II, 7 Valentine,
8 The Party, 9 DVNO, 10 Stress, 11 Waters Of Nazareth, 12 One Minute To Midnight,

OVERVIEW: You know Justice, AKA Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Auge. French duo, remixed Simian to create the titanic 'We Are Your Friends', the anthem-that-will-not-die, that's wrecked dancefloors from backstage Glasto to Trash to Euro-resorts. Groovy Parisians who have the balls to name their new single, or dare we say, their new hit - D.A.N.C.E - and in caps would you believe. But you can when you're called Justice and in all but three years have revolutionised dancefloors all over the world. For their debut album Justice decided they needed to escape Xavier's bedroom. They rented a cheap basement in the centre of Paris and fixed it up a little. Gaspard: 'We made this album with equipment that everyone can afford. We don't have enough knowledge of sound engineering and things to use really fancy equipment. That's what makes it exciting for us.' And Lord, what excitement Justice serve up. Genesis kicks things off with a big fat squelch, before Let There Be Light hoves into view like Jean Michel Jarre piloting that huge fuck-off UFO in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. And you want your heart melted? Justice will do that too, with The Party. It's a sweet and tender love song, featuring the reigning rude kid of the Paris hip hop/R&B scene, Uffie. 'It's starting slow, without beats,' says Xavier. 'Without anything, just her singing over the piano. Then it starts like a George Michael tune. We wanted to pervert Uffie, but nicely. It's a pop song. A love song'. Cross is a pan-genre future-pop mash-up fun-rocket of an album: 'We tried to make something a bit universal in the feeling that you can hear by listening to the tracks. Some are happy, some are sad, some victorious. We didn't try to do mental music or show off our producing skills. It was just about emotion.' says Gaspard. Xavier: 'We are making music by chance, just because we did We Are You Friends - we didn't know we would be musicians for the next few years. We stared from zero. It's cool to arrive in a discipline and not know anything and just try to do things.' And so it came to pass: in the case of Justice and the boogie-down, hands-up-in-the air brilliance of Cross, ignorance is bliss.