New Music: Justice: "D.A.N.C.E." [Stream] / "Phantom" [MP3]
What, do we have to tell you about everything? Actually, Pitchfork's Tim Finney already did tell you about Paris electro duo Justice's dark, distorted club banger "Phantom". But if you haven't heard the Vice/Ed Banger heroes' Jackson 5-cheery, Go! Team-gonzo follow-up, "D.A.N.C.E.", we're glad to help you wake up and smell the disco gym class (ew, sorry).
Make that disco spelling bee: A choir of peppy young ABCers shout crucial vocab ("D-A-N-C-E", "B-E-A-T", etc.) in the universal language of throwing your hands in the air and waving 'em like you just don't care you look très ridicule. Like Justice's massive club hit last summer, "We Are Your Friends" (a remix of Simian Mobile Disco's "Never Be Alone"), the track relies on a muscular funk bass line, relentlessly repeated vocal hooks, and an unbridled sense of fun, with sampled strings instead of the Simian remix's synths. What does that spell? More Daft Punk comparisons!
MP3: > Justice: "Phantom"
[both from †; due 07/10/07 on Ed Banger/Vice]