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Live, this animal bears really bears it's fangs while at the same time increasing the thoughtful and clever sonics and compositional savvy that puts them in a class above most of their peers.
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Adhering closely to the template of Daft Punk’s two seminal live albums, crowd noise is mixed high, becoming another instrument as it responds to every hook with a spine-tingling roar.
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Hearing a crowd go wild for a kick drum has to do the dance community proud.
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A Cross the Universe is a stunning accompaniment to one of the world’s premier live shows.
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MojoFormidable. [Feb 2009, p.109]
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FilterSomewhat less emotive than its well received junior, A Cross The Universe jaunts through the subgenre that it is actively creating with each flippant mesh of damn near everything through almost all of its 18 tracks. [Holiday 2008, p.100]
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Here, the pre-recorded sequences of fan favorites "DVNO," "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy," and "D.A.N.C.E." are born again; flipped and redecorated with aggressive house beats to the point that they feel fresh, but they still retain enough familiarity to get fists pumping and mouths singing along.
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Under The RadarThe recording illustrates the bombastic edge that seperates Justice from their Daft Punk forefathers. [Winter 2009, p.81]
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A Cross the Universe isn't close to anyone's definitive idea of what a document of a live Justice show should be, but it's a diverting, sometimes-bizarre look into the first phase of fame for an aughts-era cult pop phenomenon.
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Jul 11, 2019If CROSS was a sentence, this is the exclamation point. Stress Live Version is like being chased by a shark.