A Cross The Universe features – among other things – guns, arrests, fights and one marriage in Las Vegas between Gaspard and a girl he’s just met (who disappears as quickly as she appeared when the circus rolls out of town). Other notable releases over their 13 years together include two live albums and an incendiary documentary shot during their 2007 tour of America. If 2007’s † (known as Cross) was an explosive party banger and Audio, Video, Disco was a foray down the mysterious corridors of prog, then Woman is the first to truly get to grips with the song as an artform, and in particular, the love song. While they don’t live together any longer, their bromance endures, as evidenced on their latest longplayer, Woman – their first in five years and their third in nine. As they stand out on the balcony feeding their nicotine addictions and regarding passengers coming to and from the Metro station across the street, memories must come flooding back. They stayed for seven years, hatching plans, making music. Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay moved next door not long after they first met at a party in 2003, where they discovered they had more in common than their training as graphic designers. Down below us is Boulevard Barbès, a street in the north of the city that may yet become gentrified, but holds out resiliently with its array of unlicensed chestnut vendors, groups of shifty men hanging around on corners, and students handing out phone cards. We’re sat in the private upstairs attic of a plush hotel overlooking the point where the 9th, 10th and 18th arrondissements of Paris meet, where the urban hustle of Boulevard de Magenta intersects with the caliginous thrills of Boulevard de Rochechouart leading down to Pigalle. Justice are in their natural habitat, or at least they’re not far from it. Jeremy Allen meets them in Paris to find out how two old chiens have taught themselves some new tricks. A decade after their debut album made them household names and ushered a generation of indie kids onto the dancefloor, Justice are back with the most focused and finessed record of their career.
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