1001 Albums Summary

Well having no idea at all who Justice are, I was worried this would be some kind of American Christian Rock album. Thankfully, it wasn't. What it was, however, was an impenetrable mishmash of various approaches to electronica, that manages to at once suggest the artist(s) are trying to experiment with sounds and to make pop music. The vocal tracks seemed wildly out of place. The whole thing sounds like it's recorded in a single iMac in someone's bedroom. Much of it is exactly the kind of 'doesn't quite work' composition I'd expect to hear from teenagers learning to use software. Whoever programmed the drums seems to be using presets. Then there are unexpected wild flights of self-indulgent slap bass, that are a reminder that these are actually some kind of professional act. Stress is a standout track that made me sit up and listen, and perhaps gave me a context that this is coming from a world view I have no part of, and probably don't want to explore. Which, of course, is ideal, if we assume it's from a younger generation than my own.