You know how sometimes you look at a band photo and you can just tell that hanging out with them would be awesome fun?

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Doug Robertson: For a band who’ve constantly reinvented themselves and who define themselves by their desire to chase the new, it’s disappointing that this new Daft Punk single is largely a rehash of previous glories and… What? It’s actually the new Justice track? Seriously? Oh…
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Ian Mathers: Hey, do you know what’s way better than one of Justice’s old Daft Punk-on-roids sledgehammers? Similar production married with the kind of lyrics/vocals you’d get from old pop-prog songs. Guys, nobody ever wanted narrative from you.
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Zach Lyon: Has there ever been less pressure on a group to produce a song that sounds even a modicum unlike every other song they’ve done? I mean, I wish I could love anything the way Justice nerds love Justice, but doesn’t it eventually get a little boring? This sounds like they entered a Justice lookalike contest and placed second (but only because MSTRKRFT also ran).
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Anthony Easton: Johnny Halladay, as the French Elvis, is just a little too smarmy, wants it a little too much, and keeps working too hard to be a real rock and roll star. Serge Gainsbourg just gave up, fucked who he wanted, drank what he wanted, and said what he wanted, and became the real French Elvis. I feel that way about Justice and Daft Punk. Though I like how minidrums and miniguns sound alike, and I did spend some time trying to figure out how miniguns had anything to do with civilizations.
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Asher Steinberg: Sort of a cooler, and therefore way less fun, hipster version of Muse’s Queen-derivative musings on geopolitics and world peace, hybridized with a de-bubble-gummed, and therefore way less fun, take on “Evacuate the Dancefloor”. It’s all very shallow and Gallic and Bernard Henri-Levy.
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Josh Langhoff: This is supposed to sound like “War Pigs” at the beginning, right? With the slowness and the detuned growly sound and the hi-hat between lines about war? Kinda gets less interesting after that.
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Alfred Soto: Remember when Utah Saints turned Slayer into disco metal? Justice do the same for Toto or something — I’m not quite sure. Mostly the track sounds as if it waits, foot tapping, for its own remix.
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Katherine St Asaph: The chef knew something was amiss when the walk-in freezer started growling Savage Garden.
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