While I am possibly the only person who thinks their music often sounds more like daft punk than Daft Punk, there is no denying that Justice WERE 2007 for many people. Having burst into public consciousness back in 2006 with their remix of Simian's 'We Are Your Friends' and made all of us D.A.N.C.E. (sorry!) in early 2007, later that year they decided to give us † (that's their album title, by the way).

On their debut LP 'New Jack' sits comfortably between the full-blown Jackson Five-esque pop of D.A.N.C.E. and 'Phantom', a track showcasing the Electro-Rock sound that the duo's reputation (especially as a live act) is being built upon. As such, it is an apt metaphor for Justice themselves - part kiddie-friendly pure Pop delight and part something more adult.

Beginning with a now all-too-familar French Electro favourite - a kitsch, forgettable/'never remembered in the first place' Disco-Pop sample - the track swiftly disinitigrates into a rhythmic storm of digital malfunction. The aforementioned sample is cut and pasted with decisive abandonment to resemble a skipping CD, carefully arranged distorted clipping introduces microscopic bursts of rhythmic silence, while random MP3-style glitches can be heard beneath the cacophony seemingly at random. And this is all before the listener's audio equipment appears to give up and switch to another track.

Whereas a few years back a similar approach was to be heard in more obscurist music by everyone from Aphex Twin to sound artists like alva.noto, Justice have made these sounds a whole lot more accessible (and D.A.N.C.E.-able... sorry again!) without dumbing them down.