• Record Label: Bureau B
  • Release Date: Nov 25, 2014
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. The Wire
    Dec 16, 2014
    80
    The tracks here, presented with the intention that other will use them as a creative starting pint, nevertheless feel fully realised, evoking a succession of fleeting states and ambiguous atmospheres. [Dec 2014, p.57]
  2. Dec 1, 2014
    80
    You become mesmerised by Der Kaffee Kocht, its contagious rhythm produced by the rasp of a file, or the clanging Sur Le Ventre, with Peron exhorting in French.
  3. Dec 1, 2014
    80
    Faust have produced 12 tracks that perfectly encapsulate what they can do so well: to create catchy, bizarre sounds. It’s Popmusik/subversive all over again.
  4. Dec 8, 2014
    70
    Decades after their freewheeling beginnings, Just Us still shows a picture of a band as playful as it is fearless, willing to pick up any object, idea, or unlikely concept and transform it effortlessly into something strange and captivating.
  5. Dec 1, 2014
    70
    As an experiment in open source sharing, j US t misses the mark; instead, Faust have left the listener with an oddly listenable LP.
  6. Dec 1, 2014
    68
    Some songs maintain the attraction of anticipation, hinting at where they might go without ever fully abandoning other options. But others feel more flat than ripe, not so much flirting with tense silence as drifting into empty inertia.
  7. Under The Radar
    Dec 19, 2014
    65
    Faust explore a wide range of sounds, sometimes by changing the character of an instrument--or a non-instrument. [Dec 2014, p.90]
  8. 65
    jUSt is by no means a catastrophe, it's just too empty an artefact to recommend to fans of a band who once infuriated, teased, scalded, intoxicated and destroyed their listeners with effortless aplomb.

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