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Justice
When Justice first unleashed “Waters of Nazareth” nearly 20 years ago, their blend of heavy metal, French filter disco, and gothic psychedelia was unlike anything else. Even after releasing their crossover hit “D.A.N.C.E.,” winning two Grammys, and influencing some of the biggest artists alive, the duo of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay never assimilated into the pop world, focusing instead on blazing a path of uncompromising experimentation that has made them outliers in a risk-averse industry. But the world has finally caught up with Justice, and they’re ready for it with the most fully realized album of their career.
The band’s fourth LP, Hyperdrama, opens with the transcendent “Neverender,” featuring a euphoric hook—sung by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker—spiked with melancholy ache. From there, the duo takes listeners on a euphoria-inducing journey through sounds that are familiar to Justice fans and influences that have been bubbling up through their music for years, touching down across a field of influences from French touch to space jazz to sci-fi film scores, often shifting from one to another as each track unfurls along its own singular logic.
Recorded over three and a half years, and featuring guest vocalists including Parker, Thundercat, and Connan Mocakasin, Hyperdrama is Justice’s most ambitious album yet. Its heart is on the dance floor, but it was created for a type of listening that was once common and has now become vanishingly rare: the whole album, front to back, in order to fully appreciate its sprawling soundscapes. Full of stratospheric emotions and sublime sonics, it’s a LP-length testament to the increasingly uncommon idea that albums—and art in general—deserve time, dedication, and close attention from creator and consumer alike.
