Comprised of two French gentlemen named Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay, Justice are one of the hottest and most buzzed about new Electronic acts in the genre today. Their remixes for the likes of Franz Ferdinand and countless others have made them highly sought after for their production work, but somewhere along the line they made time to drop their debut record Cross.

It's no surprise that this French duo would choose to take cues right out of the Daft Punk playbook which they do at times, but more often than not they're more reminiscent of the party per second Basement Jaxx. Unfortunately, Cross doesn't come anywhere close to being half as interesting as the best works from those two legendary groups.

Cross does start out interestingly enough. Album opener "Genesis" sounds like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" mixed into a Crystal Method blender and "D.A.N.C.E." is as good as anything The Go! Team came up with on their debut a few years back. "Valentine" is a mellow little synth ditty that would fit right at home next to Wendy Carlos' work off of the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Other than those tracks however, Cross starts to fizzle into caverns of meandering and obnoxious tedium. I have the same problem with Cross that I do with Ratatat's last album and that's that everything starts to run into one another and every track sounds the same with hardly any distinction. Also, "DVNO" sounds like the biggest LCD Soundsystem rip-off; so much so that I wouldn't blame James Murphy if he wanted to consider legal action. If you want a great Dance/Electronic record and you still haven't picked up the new LCD Soundsystem yet then that's where you need to start. I can definitely see the potential that Justice displays, I just don't think that Cross does them any . . . well you get the idea.