“I feel like we both came to this project fresh. In the end, it was fluid, we were happy to meet again, each with new influences, new desires,” explained Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé on Wednesday on French radio franceinfo, one finishing the other’s sentence. for their first speech before the publication this Wednesday evening of a new piece, prelude to Hyperdrama, one of the most anticipated albums in 2024, particularly in the United States.
Their last studio album, Woman, dates back to 2016 and Gaspard Augé had just offered himself a solo escape in 2021 with the instrumental album Escapades. Their social networks announce the release of the single “One night/All night”, at 7:00 p.m. in France (6:00 p.m. GMT), highlighting the “10:00am PT” slot, i.e. 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, in the United States. United.
Expectations are indeed high in the USA, the starting point of their world tour in April with Coachella. Billboard, specialized American media, recalls that “Justice has been very discreet since its Grammy”, the prestigious American trophy won in 2019, their second after that of 2009. “The duo’s first feat of arms was their single D.A.N.C.E., immediately iconic, in their landscape-changing inaugural album in 2007” also rewinds this magazine.
But don’t come and talk to them about a single. “We are not at all interested in the short format. What drives us is making albums, even though almost no one listens to albums anymore (unlike singles, Editor’s note), but I like this expression from a friend who calls it the conquerors of the “useless,” explains Xavier de Rosnay on franceinfo.
The throne of the French Touch on the global electro scene has been vacant since the separation of Daft Punk in 2021. It is also the former manager of this other French duo, Pedro Winter, who hosts Justice in his Parisian label, at international influence, Ed Banger. We can recognize his mark in the countdown on the Justice networks since January 1, based on handfuls of seconds of pieces and information distilled drop by drop.
We have known for a few days that the album – whose release date is not yet known – will be called Hyperdrama and that the single One night/All night is served by the voice of the Australian Kevin Parker, mastermind of the group Tame Impala. “This teaser is very appetizing. You are in it, you feel that it is going to be a great album, it smells like the big comeback of Justice,” comments Paul Langeois, head of the French festival Beauregard, in Normandy, which welcomes them in July.
From the song D.A.N.C.E. the duo with the look of rockers, with their first album marked with a cross, made the link between different chapels. “It’s an ultimate electro group live, but also rock in energy, attitude, positioning, which brings together younger and older people. For us, it’s the guarantee of ending the festival in apotheosis,” explains Clément Meyère, programmer of the Parisian festival We Love Green, where Justice will perform in June, for AFP. “In terms of the show, it’s always phenomenal, super picky, on the visuals, the music, Paul Langeois is already salivating. They have already asked us if the stage can support a large device, they are going to take the whole stage.