Name: Cross [Vinyl]
Brand: VINYL
SKU: 1429243
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Cross [Vinyl]

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Album: Cross [Vinyl]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Genesis	More Info...	0:04
2)	Let There Be Light	More Info...	0:05
3)	D.A.N.C.E.	More Info...	0:04
4)	Newjack	More Info...	0:03
5)	Phantom	More Info...	0:04
6)	Phantom Part 2	More Info...	0:03
7)	Valentine	More Info...	0:03
8)	Tthheee Party	More Info...	0:04
9)	DVNO	More Info...	0:04
10)	Stress	More Info...	0:05
11)	Waters of Nazareth	More Info...	0:04
12)	One Minute to Midnight	More Info...	0:03

Album: Cross [Vinyl]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Genesis	More Info...	0:04
2)	Let There Be Light	More Info...	0:05
3)	D.A.N.C.E.	More Info...	0:04
4)	Newjack	More Info...	0:03
5)	Phantom	More Info...	0:04
6)	Phantom Part 2	More Info...	0:03
7)	Valentine	More Info...	0:03
8)	Tthheee Party	More Info...	0:04
9)	DVNO	More Info...	0:04
10)	Stress	More Info...	0:05
11)	Waters of Nazareth	More Info...	0:04
12)	One Minute to Midnight	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

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.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.91) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he go straight for the jugular...'Genesis,' 'DVNO' and 'Waters of Nazareth' deliver thrills a la classic Eurotrash like Army of Lovers or Sheila and B. Devotion."

The Wire (p.56) - "[Justice] have fast become clubland's favorite French duo since Daft Punk..."