Jus†ice - Audio, Video, Disco

i didn't mind that either, especially the last bit

Album medley up on Soundcloud :

I really, really, really like it ! I can clearly hear a huge Yes inspiration in there, but this is not a bad thing. Me likey.

http://onethirtybpm.com/media/mp3s-justice-newlands-and-canon/

a couple tracks from the album

  On 10/6/2011 at 6:51 PM, StocKo said:

Album medley up on Soundcloud :

 

http://soundcloud.com/edbangerrecords/justice-audio-video-disco-1

 

I really, really, really like it ! I can clearly hear a huge Yes inspiration in there, but this is not a bad thing. Me likey.

yes?

or superstramp?

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2011/10/21/decouvrez-le-nouvel-album-de-justice-en-exclusivite_1590576_3246.html#xtor=EPR-32280246-

I'm disappointed, it's more of the same... :(

i really dig it. not as much as cross, but i still do. it's got a fair few spins from me already.

Woah thanks for the link Mickael !!!!!!!!

Currently listening to it and loving it so far !!! a bit of a guilty pleasure but who cares ! it's great.

This album is like 10 remixes of Flash Gordon by Queen

  On 10/26/2011 at 7:26 PM, acid1 said:

This album is like 10 remixes of Flash Gordon by Queen

ahhh

Not as bad as I thought it would be.... Doesn't strike me as having anything on there that's as good as the best bits on the first album but then there's nothing on there that's as bad as the worst bits on the first album... So yeah, a bit more consistant but a bit less exciting?

What really struck me was how much they have blatantly pilferred from:

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

Led Zeppelin

Van Halen

Thin Lizzy

Queen

Supertramp

Yes

King Crimson

Foreigner

Hall and Oates

and very few members of their audience will realize any of this...

Will need to hear it a few more times to see how I feel about it properly but atm I think the first track is the highlight for me....

oh and I forgot the straight-up thievery of Nine Inch Nails' Closer beat for Ohio, with Abbey Road-era Beatles arpeggios on top

I thought there would be more discussion about this album.

In general, I'm happy that Justice actually tried to do something new, and progressed as artists. However, this seems to be the classic case of an artist progressing and ignoring their core audience's needs.

On the positive side of things, if they truly wrote all that music, they certainly did a fine job. The album is also mastered consistently pleasant. While listening to it in my car, I wasn't scared to crank up the volume because I knew there wouldn't be any loud surprises. Seems like they have been experimenting with more instruments, vocals, and even tried some time signature changes all to decent success. Artistically I think Justice accomplished the goal they wanted to.

On the flip side, Justice lost all their spice, and I think thats what all the reviews are complaining about. This album, if published before Cross, would have still created a cult like following. The concept of extending 70's prog rock into the digital domain has the potential to be genre defying, unfortunately fans will compare this album to Cross and just look at this as Justice softening up the sound; creating mediocre melodies that will be quickly forgotten.

I can't help to think that the purpose of this album was really to push them into modern day rock stars. With the Across the Universe tour, they were already traveling around in tour buses full of groupies, playing sold out stadium venues, on stage with their leather jackets, and pyrotechnic stage show theatrics. I feel like one of them said "Hey, this reminds me of a behind-the-music I saw on VH1 about Queen, why don't we just fully commit?"

Hip hop artists tend to do this "telegraph" way of saying they are rich and famous and the best rapper alive over and over again until people start believing it. Jay-Z and Lil Wayne are hands down the prime example of telegraphing something until their fans begin to believe it. Recently Eminem did this by saying on his album about how "he's back and better then before" until the fans eventually believed it. I think Justice tried to telegraph being rock stars, we will have to see if the fans believe it or not. I am not convinced.

  On 10/27/2011 at 5:34 PM, acid1 said:

The album is also mastered consistently pleasant.

This I don't know about. I do appreciate that it isn't cut as hot as Cross was, it's not stupidly compressed, but there's something funny about the EQing, it sounds pretty bland in a way. Feels like it's missing some sparkle, something in the upper midrange. It's really odd that you mentioned it because the mastering was actually getting to me when I was listening to it last night and thought I should do a tweaked version with more life to it for my own listening...

i liked this album. im glad they went in a different direction then 'cross' as some bands would of just sold out on that sound for the rest of their careers.

  On 10/27/2011 at 1:33 PM, Greg Reason said:

What really struck me was how much they have blatantly pilferred from:

 

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

Led Zeppelin

Van Halen

Thin Lizzy

Queen

Supertramp

Yes

King Crimson

Foreigner

Hall and Oates

Add to the list: Black Sabbath and The Who in Civilization.

I found this album really disappointing. Its not the sampling that ruins it for me, just the whole 70's rock/pop direction is not really working for me. Totally lost the edge that made † great. (TIL on Mac, Alt-T does this †!)

I think people who are disappointed with this album probably need to pick up- SebastiAn's Total which I feel as if really represents that ed banger style which cross bled and is missing on AVD (big compression, fat bass slaps etc.)

Total was/is a great album. I have the vinyl cd pack. Lovely package

  On 10/30/2011 at 5:53 PM, jaysharpm7 said:

Add to the list: Black Sabbath and The Who in Civilization.

You're right, there's a bit of a tribute to Baba O'Reilly going on there

  On 10/30/2011 at 8:31 PM, chassis said:

Total was/is a great album. I have the vinyl cd pack. Lovely package

Of course it is ! But you can't even compare it to AVD. They're way too different...

I had very high expectations for Total and it disappointed me a bit, whereas I was expecting Justice to release a piece of shit and was amazed and really surprised (in a good way).

I'm really looking forward forthcoming live dates, it could be just huge.

  On 10/30/2011 at 8:29 PM, MastaN8 said:

I think people who are disappointed with this album probably need to pick up- SebastiAn's Total which I feel as if really represents that ed banger style which cross bled and is missing on AVD (big compression, fat bass slaps etc.)

Oh definitely. I really respect justice more for this album, they could have done anything, they could have done a cross p2, they could have done straight techno, they could have done generic shitty dance music. It is a concept album. We saw similar reactions to squarepusher's JAS(another concept album). This album is really nice, not very many electronic producers could have pulled off an album in this style without it sounding weird. This sounds really good.

  On 10/26/2011 at 8:23 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 10/26/2011 at 7:26 PM, acid1 said:

This album is like 10 remixes of Flash Gordon by Queen

ahhh

I can see this being both amazing and irritating

It's a shame Justice died in a plane crash and that their second album will never be released because all the materials were on the plane with them. At least we'll always have Cross.

  On 11/1/2011 at 4:55 AM, Hoodie said:

It's a shame Justice died in a plane crash and that their second album will never be released because all the materials were on the plane with them. At least we'll always have Cross.

On'n'on is being released as a single, and its going to have remixes from Rick Rubin, Brodinski and Video Village, plus Canon is being remixed by Erol Alkan and Tiga.

But holy fuck, Rick Rubin?!

i've really grown to like this album

It's too cringey for me to listen to. It's good for what it is but I haven't cringed this much at music since i heard that photek single on tectonic