Cross (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Punk  »  General/Hardcore/Punk
• Format: CD
• Release Date: July 10, 2007
• Label: Vice Records
• UPC: 825646298624
• WAPI (Tower ID): 107317480
• Average Customer Review:    (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #1240 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #10 in Punk (See Top 100 Punk Bestsellers)
• #7 in General/Hardcore/Punk (See Top 100 General/Hardcore/Punk Bestsellers)

• DISC 1 for Cross (CD) Album
• 1   Genesis
• 2   Let There Be Light
• 3   D.A.N.C.E.
• 4   Newjack
• 5   Phantom
• 6   Phantom Pt II
• 7   Valentine
• 8   Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
• 9   Dvno
• 10   Stress
• 11   Waters Of Nazareth
• 12   One Minute To Midnight

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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..."

Justice (Electropop): Xavier De Rosnay, Gaspard Auge.

Additional personnel: Uffie, Felix Zadek-Ewing, Harriet Syndercombe-Court, Francesca Levin, Aubrey Allegretti, David Christopher Ragusa, Matthiew Cullen O'Keefe, Demitri Mitchell-Palmer, Dvno (vocals).

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.

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