![]() ![]() This album isn’t miles removed from Cross, but it differs notably in its emphasis on the stylings of classic rock instead of the club-ready beats of house. It’s interesting then that given the success of Cross, Audio, Video, Disco takes an entirely different sonic turn from that record. The random bursts of static noise could disrupt anyone dancing to the music, but in the end those bursts added to the groove instead of subtracting from it. ![]() ![]() Even on the initially disarming songs, notably the crazed, nightmarish “Stress”, the hook always overpowered. It was by no means the most approachable record of its kind, but in all of its various experiments it succeeded. Cross was a kinetic, in-your-face piece of work, as it took all of the conventional expectations of house and threw in heaping spoonfuls of glitch, blistering noise, ’70s pop, and disco. That record, though by no means a complete revitalization of the house genre, took a genre that was in many ways getting old fast ( Human After All, anyone?) and made it sound fresh. More or likely this is the sentiment of the fans of Justice, whose highly anticipated sophomore record has come four long years after the French duo dropped their phenomenal debut record Cross. ![]()
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