Justice – “Incognito”
Justice comeback season is upon us. This year, the French blog-house duo will return to the stage at a bunch of big music festivals, starting with Coachella. Next month, they’ll also release Hyperdrama, their first new album in eight years. After teasing the new LP, the group announced the release with two singles, the Tame Impala collab “One Night/All Night” and the more conventionally Justice-sounding jam “Generator.” Now, they’ve dropped another track on us.
“Incognito,” Justice’s latest jam, is an instrumental, at least up until its final seconds. The track starts out as a cinematic and melodramatic before locking into a hard dance groove. It percolates nicely, and it brings some of the session-musician disco-funk lushness that Justice’s contemporaries in Daft Punk introduced on Random Access Memories. Here’s how the duo describes the song:
Like many songs on this record, it switches from all electronic to all human music abruptly, multiple times within its four-minute run. The structure is dictated by what feels good at the moment it happens, without necessarily following any other rule. We had to unlearn everything we thought we knew about song structures, and music in general, when we started working on Hyperdrama, which was very refreshing.
Listen to “Incognito” below.
Hyperdrama is out 4/26 on Ed Banger/Because Music.