This is a rather painful subject to have to address. I only mean to express my disappointment. I hope it won’t be interpreted as disrespect:

Justice

Back in 2006, there wasn’t a soul in the entirety of the electro community that would hear a bad word about Justice. Remember Coachella 2006? Remember when they did dj sets and tore their crowds apart with those heavy hitters like Waters of Nazareth and Stress? What happened? My theory: that little electro community that I speak of grew one hundredfold, and the plethora of new fans allowed Justice’s ego to grow equally large. Cross came out, and their somewhat renowned DJ sets turned into “Justice Live”, which is an incredibly confusing title considering you’re going to struggle if you attempt to find anything even remotely live about their show; A guy I know came back from Coachella this year infuriated at the fact that a whole ton of the people that saw Justice’s set were complaining that they may as well have stayed in the hotel room and listened to the cd. He said to me, “They don’t know what they’re talking about. They just aren’t listening hard enough to hear the differences.” At first I sympathized with the guy, thinking, “Yeah, I suppose their are a lot of newbies in this scene. Maybe they just didn’t know.” But after thinking it over for a few minutes, I realized that his opinion is absolutely ridiculous. The fact that you have to perk your ear like a dog to hear the good qualities of a piece of music means that the music just isn’t good. Don’t get me wrong, Cross was and still is a spectacular album, but that doesn’t mean that Justice couldn’t put a little more work into their live performances, especially considering they’re using them as an excuse to not begin work on a new album. The two have been interviewed several times in the past couple months by people curious to know what’s brewing in the Justice cauldron, and each time they have responded with something along the lines of, “We feel that we put a good deal of effort into Cross, so we’re just focusing on touring right now.” Jeez, there are only so many singles your can pull out of that single album… Okay so maybe I’m being a little harsh. (That Stress video was undeniably awesome.) They haven’t literally been up to nothing at all. The guys have recently released a remix of MGMT’s Electric Feel. Unfortunately, it seems a little below the bar that many of their other tracks have set. Hopefully that’s merely due to the fact that this little sneak preview that’s been blogging about is only a segment of the full song ripped from a radio show, or even just because touring likely puts a heavy strain on production quality.

MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)

Let’s cross our fingers for a solid comeback. God knows they’re capable.