I am music

I am Music.


This blog will now include music I like.


This is partly because I like music. And partly because it means I will update it more than twice a year... probably.


So anyway, the first thing I'd like to show you is this, the new (OK, it's been out for almost a month) Justice album - Audio, Video, Disco


Listen to some. There's a lot of crashing and buffalo:

I thought I would start with this album because all of you know I love Justice. All my fans. Friends. Family. Right? Anyway, I do. So, the first thing that struck me about this album is that it's clear that they have made an album THEY want to make. Not a second '†'. Not that anyone thought they'd make that anyway if they were honest, but I think people were still thinking that it would still have a lot of distortion and a very electronic sound. I remember when they released the single above  I saw a comment on iTunes from someone who said something like, "Oh my God, what the hell is this? I'm disappointed, it sounds like some old prog rock group", and I thought, well yeah, that's probably EXACTLY what they wanted it to sound like. Remember, the old Justice album art was influenced by an old T.Rex album after all:

But anyway, I like the album, it's got a unique quality to it, and as with most Justice music, is expertly made. You can hear new little details and layers every time you listen to it. I like that they've started messing around with guitars, I like the sing-a-long feel, I like the fact that it feels like it doesn't really belong in this time or place, considering what most 'electronic' music is like these days. (I put electronic in inverted commas there because I know I implied earlier that it wasn't really electronic, but to my mind, Justice are still an electronic 'dance' act. (I put dance in inverted commas there because the word dance covers a fuckload of different artists.))

If you like Justice's old stuff you might like it, if you like prog/stadium/cheese rock or however you'd describe it, you might like it too... I'm not sure it's as good as † though.

The one thing I do get annoyed about though is that Ed Banger records albums tend to take an AGE to finally get released, so it's hyped up to obscene, unrealistic levels and you're expecting everything to tear you a new arsehole. But hey, it's not like I'm ever really disappointed.

Apart from that Uffie album.

Jeez, that's for another time.