Justice Reflect on Cinematic Album Making Process

After 2 decades of underground success, French electro legends Justice are enjoying their first US radio hit alongside Tame Impala with "Neverender." Listen back to their full interview with Seacrest here

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Justice is here in the studio with us right now.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Say hello to them. This Barred and Xavier than you
can do.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Who a gentleman famous for a long time actually, But
congratulations on the Grammy win. Let me play a little
clip and I'll play the whole song in a second.
But you've heard this on Kiss Never Ended, Grammy winner
for Best Electronic Dance Records. I need to hang out
with guys like this. Guys like this they bring a

(00:28):
cool factor exactly. They bring up your cool factor. Gentlemen,
welcome to the studio. And one thing I noticed Gard
and Xavier was you did a Tom Cruise when you
walked in. You walked in and you shook everyone's hand
inside the room.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
So is that how it's called. It's called the Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, I mean it's a It's a very nice thing
to do to say hello to everybody. But as you
reflect on the last twenty years of your career, it
seems as if some of the more mainstream recognition is
happening now, right.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But can we keep talking at Tom Cruise because we
love it?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Mission impossible accompany now.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
But what's crazy is that I think I've never seen
him in a bad movie.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Right, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
No, it's true.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
He knows how he did the icewear shirt. Well of
the world, even Mission impossibility is going to occur.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, it's a classic movie with Nicole Kidman and Tom
Ryan brings that movie up a lot, I do. It's
an after hours kind of movie though it is.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
So sory. What what was the question?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
It seems as if your your mainstream recognition is really
taking off now too, even though you've been doing this
a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, it's it's I don't know if mainstream is the
is the right world, but but it's kind of uh, yeah,
we we still can't really fat on what's happening. And
at the same time, it's we are like so used
of things being very immediate and people expect like things
to blow up from the first single her first album,

(02:09):
and we find it kind of healthy that's happening after
like four albums and twenty years, and it's yeah, very nice.
We embrace it very much.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
And Gus part, where are you originally from?

Speaker 5 (02:24):
From Electric Light Orchestra City and where is that in
the suburb of Paris? Okay, I'm from Paris from both
of you, yes, well, both suburbanls we have.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Someone on the staff.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Actually, when we were talking about you coming in, got
very fanny about it, and that was a signmon who
works on our producing staff. He saw you, I think
twenty years ago where at the festival downtown Simon.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, I've seen you guys a few times.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was the festival on the crossroads of downtown LA.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
That was one. I can't even remember all the Coachella's,
but many Coachella's, they're all sort of a blur. But
you guys, you know, I've burned a lot of calories
shaking my booty to you guys, and I appreciate all
the music, you know. I appreciate everything you guys have
contributed to my life.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Thank human. Thanks.

Speaker 7 (03:21):
Let me play a little clip of Justice with the Weekend.
It's up a Weekend's new album. So my question is
for you guys.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
You always sort of we talk about trying to be bored,
We're like trying to be bored before everybody else. We're
always moving forward with something that's coming up, something new,
something next, something to talk about, something to do here
on this show and in life too. But how is
it for two decades you can stay ahead of what's
current and continue to push what's new?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, like, are we head or are we so late
that by systems of cycles we end up being ahead
once in a while. One thing we know for sure
is that about trends is that we the best way
to be old fashioned is maybe to try to be
to be trendy. And we are so slow in the

(04:17):
making that if we think, oh, that's cool, now, let's
do this, by the time we finished it three years later,
we already all knew it over.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, it's three years? Is that a project length?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
We worked three years on this album and our previous
album was released eight years ago. So we're so slow
at making things that we we gave up on trends
like a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Gosh, I am we are the antithesis of that. I
can't wait one minute for something. All right, let's get
to this track. We've been talking about so many requests
for this too. Justice Their Gramming winning songs partan exavier
are here in the studio from Paris, which we can
just dream about. And you talk about these being sort
of cinematic and a cinematic universe of their own.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
Every time we make an album, we were trying to
structure it as some kind of at least a theater play,
maybe not a movie, but you know, something with an
introduction like then a plot twist, then resolution.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
And because we are.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Very much attached to the format and to and and
we don't really we won't know how to make a
collection of singles and all the album tracks are as
equally important to us, and we definitely want to make
music that is as evocative as possible and not never

(05:47):
in the middle of the road.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And here is a track equally important as the others
right now, Never Enter Justice, Tame and Paula. It is
such a vibe. Never Entered Justice and Tame and Paula.
They're here with us in the studio right now, Gaspard
and Xavier. I mean that takes me through the sand
dunes of the desert to the galaxy of outer space.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
That the sound of that.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yes, I don't think I know you got a show
coming up in Santa Barbara. I don't think you can
see these guys and listen to these guys and feel
like there's a problem in the world.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
That's necessari here. Yeah, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
It is so hard to escape our own heads and
stress of life.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
But when you listen to the style of the music
that you create and perform, it really does put all
that stuff on hold for a second.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, that's really like the reason why we make music. Ultimately,
it's just to create a ble of something not always nice,
but at least that's not a reality.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
And a lot of people ask us if.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
We are like the music we make, and the truth
is not, like, like we make everything so of our
music he's as defilt as possible from our lives and
our personalities.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
If we have music like that sounds like us, it
would be like some sort of maybe boing not so
good for music or.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
A bit sad, and you get into character when you
perform your music or record in the studio, you get
into a zone.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, totally, we don't. It's like this in real life.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, it looking like superstars, rock stars in here to
play the part. Yeah, you got to check out them
if you can. Santa Barbers the next show you can
see them at. But take a look online where they're
going to be. We doing it for a long time,
and I just there's very few things that can get
me from the voices in my head to stop talking.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And your music doesn't. We're grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Won'tcome anytime, anytime.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Xavier and Gasparre from Justice, thank you so much for
coming in. We appreciate nice to meet you.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Thank you, Ryan inspiring us

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Me