Hard electronic or funk disco? Why choose when you can have both? This must have been the starting point that the French duo faced before starting to work on their fourth studio work. After eight years after his previous step, Justice They return with an album in which they demonstrate that an escape from the imperative of immediacy can always be a good idea. For four years they have worked as true production craftsmen to achieve a neat duality between the darkest, sharpest and most violent sounds of electronica and the most enveloping melodies typical of disco and funk. Two universes that coexist but without overlapping. I won’t make any jokes about two wolves inside a cross, but you understand what I mean. The cover embodies these elements in a single image, contrasting a luminous skeleton with a nervous system inside the sharp ✝ (registered trademark).
“Hyperdrama” It includes cuts in which we often seem to return to the beginnings of the band but with details and production twists that have appeared in their latest albums. Dismembering the disk, one of the clearest ways to understand this duality is with “Afterimage”, a song that begins with a beat, let’s call it hardcore, but that evolves into a much more romantic space with the contribution of Rimon’s voice in a disco loop. Or the brutality with which the comb shakeso “Generator” along with the grooviest basses that accompany the melodic voice of Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) in “One Night/All Night”. We also find unexpected moments such as the practically jazzy atmosphere that we find in the sax of “Moonlight Rendez-vous” or Connan Mockasin’s retrofuturist narrative in “Explorer”. In addition to those already mentioned, closing “Hyperdrama” we find contributions from Miguel (“Saturnine”) o Thundercat (“The End”) that expand the duo’s universe to a new level. Self-aware and confident in their intuition Justice It moves away from the predominant accelerated bpms of current electronic music and once again extends an invitation to the French touch.