What the world needs now is a proper blog house resurgence, taking electronic music back to the wild, carefree, pre-EDM neon-punk party days of the late-’00s. And if any project was to deliver us there, it’d be Justice, the French duo who helped define the genre.
But Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay are no nostalgia act, delivering Hyperdrama, their first new Justice album in eight years, in April like a bomb, and are now taking it across North America for a journey that leads to Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway tonight (August 2). After dropping a Tame Impala collab earlier this year, Justice followed it up with a fresh joint in April called “Saturnine” and featuring Miguel.
“We don’t think we’ve ever made anything that sounds remotely like this track before,” Justice state. “It started with Gaspard playing around with an E-mu synthesizer guitar sound, and he found the main riff. The rest came very quickly. We love Miguel’s voice when it’s raw. We wanted him to sound outrageously frontal, with no space around his voice. We felt confident we could make this work with a single mono take of his voice, and minimal processing. It also suited the theme of the song, that’s this sort of fear and loathing in Las Vegas sweaty, hallucinatory flow. Feeling well in feeling bad.”
That’s as 2024 as it gets.
JUSTICE: LIVE + BRAXE & FALCON :: Friday, August 2 at MGM Music Hall, 2 Lansdowne St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $25 to $69.50 :: Event info :: Advance tickets