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Generally favorable reviews- based on 46 Ratings

  • Band members: Xavier De Rosnay, Gaspard Augé
  • Summary: The second full-length studio album for the French electronic duo features guest appearances by Ali Love, Morgan Phalen, and Vincent Vendetta.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 33
  2. Negative: 2 out of 33
  1. Oct 25, 2011
    91
    What Audio, Video, Disco does best is show off what a pair of good producers can really do-namely, simplifying technical musicianship into head-throbbing dance music.
  2. Nov 21, 2011
    80
    This is dense and metallic and gorgeous. [#82, p.57]
  3. Dec 22, 2011
    60
    A bold step forward. [Nov 2011, p.98]
  4. Oct 24, 2011
    30
    Audio, Video, Disco is simply too unfocused, too half-baked, and too busy hiding its inadequacies with superficially interesting window-dressing to fit in either of those settings--or any other.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. The problem with the album is really the fans and critics. They expected AVD is be along the lines of "Cross, Part 2." I can tell you right now, if you expected AVD is be a follow up to and sound like "Cross", YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED. AVD is completely different from "Cross", as it more retro-rock instead of the dark opera-disco sound of "Cross." Is this bad? No, because it's always nice to have a change of sound. Expand
  2. When an album like this comes along, critics go insane because it is not what they expected, and they pan it because it isn't reminiscent of the artist's/group's previous album. Justice deserves the benefit of the doubt on this album: yes, it is different, but they are still tackling a focused idea - a synthesis of two genres (despite what Tiny Mix Tapes would like you to believe). Instead of tackling the extremely epic disco/dance sound again, they decided to go for a more alternative electro/rock style. Was the transition that bad? Any worse than Daft Punk's transition from Homework to Discovery? I don't think so, but, then again, I am not one of the published metacontrarians on this site. Expand
  3. It is very likely that two things will stay the same for Justice (Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay as their mums know them): the cross as their symbol and comparisons to Daft Punk, another French gods of house music. Canon of their latest album Audio, Video, Disco. (or I Hear, I See, I Learn) could be easily mistaken for Daft Punkâ Expand
  4. I signed up just to give this album a 0. If you like Justice, STAY AWAY FROM THIS ALBUM!
    It is a disappointment at least, and a failure at bes
    t. There is a reason that Justice never made there own music before. They are not musicians.

    RIP Justice. 2003-2011.
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