It's about time!Click here to read the entire selection from today's New York Times. 3 snippets from the article can be found below.
*“Our crowd is more a rock crowd,” said Gaspard Augé of Justice, who is still surprised that fans sometimes stage-dive at its gigs. Young audiences, he suggested, “just want more fun in electronic music, more hedonism.”
As for the cross-icon title, Mr. Augé said it was inspired, in part, because “it was a potent pop symbol in the ’90s, with people like Madonna and George Michael using it.” Of course it’s also a common heavy-metal motif, a connection also suggested by Justice’s crudely gothic black-and-silver cover art (not to mention those awe-inspiring Marshall stacks, which, it should be noted, are merely stage props).
“Daft Punk were my heroes when they released the ‘Homework’ album,” said Thomas Turner of the young Austin synth-rock band Ghostland Observatory. “That really influenced my view on music.”*
View Justice's '90s-influenced album art here.
MP3: Justice - Phantom Pt. 2
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