Plus, these weren’t guys hiding behind the anonymity afforded by full-body costumes and sky-scraping stages, these were dudes in a smoky club, wearing black leather jackets and blasting cacophanous electronic beats that could break glass like a fist. It was exactly this glitchiness and distortion that differentiated them from a band like Daft Punk, a duo to which they were often but erroneously compared (less daft, more punk). Listening to “Phantom Part II” was like listening to the theme song from Goldeneye with a severed corpus callosum. Disco does kind of suck, but this sounded straight-up grungy. It just…didn’t sound like dance music it sounded like a dance revolution. However, it’s this same ambivalence to the genre that made me admire Justice’s † so much. Since then I have looked on eBay for a replica of the “Disco Sucks” shirt that Lester Bangs wears in Almost Famous, multiple times. Just so you know, I legitimately liked-and have multiple dust-covered CD-Rs of-music from Dance Dance Revolution, a game I played competitively for years. Full disclosure: I am probably the least qualified person in the world to review electronic music, or what I like to call “beep boop” music.
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