Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer For electronic duo Justice, everything comes down to timing. When the French group debuted with 2007’s “Cross,” Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay entered the music space at the exact moment when bloghouse — a cultural moment defined by its skittery, electroclash sound and propagated by music-sharing blog sites — was opening audiences to developing strains of dance music.
Justice presented as something of an alternative to their peers; their music was distinct, like a mutated Daft Punk, with assaultive songs that mainly lacked vocals and touted instrumentation pocked by harsh, distorted sounds. “A lot of people felt [‘Cross’] was a heavy metal influence,” says De Rosnay. “And for us, it was like a disco record made with noise and it was like if the remnants of the White Stripes made a disco record.
The reason it was so different is when we started noticing the huge gap between what we make and how people perceive it. Which is great.
That’s the…” Augé chimes in: “That’s the magic of music.” Roughly two decades after they released their first song, a remix of Simian’s “Never Be Alone,” Justice is returning with its first album in eight years, “Hyperdrama,” out today (April 26).
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