11. Justice – Cross Digitalism – Idealism

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Fuck Justice.





To be fair, Justice Digitalism are excellent producers/remixers from France Germany who took didn’t take the indie world by storm this year because some Pitchdork or other decided to exalt trash them, and it’s not hard to see why. I was a big fan of “Waters of Nazareth” “Zdarlight” last year, as I’d finally crossed the final frontier into buying straight-up dance music and was buying all the digital 12” singles that I read about. The track had an unusual two-part structure to it, with a lo-fi straightforward tech-house intro overcome by a big chord progression of gothic church organs buzzing electronic pianos in the second half. And based on remixes of songs from Soulwax, Franz Ferdinand, and Death From Above 1979 Cut Copy, the Presets, and Test Icicles, the band seemed to know exactly how to fill the floor with a signature sound. But Though the full-length album released this past summer spent spends too much a lot of time simply aping paying tribute to Discovery Human After All-era Daft Punk, albeit with a dose of synthetic disco strings and Jackson-like rhymes to somehow make da funk feel da funkier it actually betters their #1 influence's approach to robot rock, unveiling other creative ancestors in the process, such as the Cure and New Order.

With Despite a fashionista video (of creatively animated T-shirts spinning girls in bodysuits) for their sugary pop song post-punk hit “D.A.N.C.E.” “Pogo” as well as a featured spot in Cadillac commercials on video game soundtracks, both hipster girls in leg warmers tube tops and hipster boys with Motley Crüe-inspired mullets barely pubescent-looking ‘staches were entirely hardly impressed. Justice Digitalism ended up on everybody’s nobody's year-end top 10 lists while other relevant electro auteurs were subsequently overshadowed, not even my own, where it places at #11... but only because it was an incredible year for music.

"D.A.N.C.E." (Click if you must.)

"Pogo":