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Nov 21, 2016After a slight misstep with Audio, Visual Disco, they’ve only gone and created a masterpiece with Woman.
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Nov 18, 2016Woman is confident and captivating, and like their debut before it, demands attention.
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Dec 2, 2016Woman is a really good record and an accomplished, confident body of work, but it may leave those hankering for something with more venom feeling a little impatient.
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Nov 18, 2016Justice’s sound is still huge, still bludgeoningly and pleasingly direct.
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Nov 17, 2016Woman is a joyous album of hope and optimism.
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Nov 17, 2016Ultimately, Woman‘s choral and orchestral contributions make the album stand out not only from Justice’s own prior work, but also from the throng of more repetitive electronic music that’s prevalent today.
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Nov 15, 2016While nothing on Woman is quite as bombastic as when † was first unleashed on an unsuspecting public, there's plenty of intriguing stuff to chew on here with deep cuts such as Chorus and Heavy Metal, resulting in a terrific return from the French duo.
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Nov 18, 2016For the majority of Woman, Justice are acting out their pop dreams through machinery. Where in the past they’ve allowed to let the equipment do the talking, here, they show that they too are human after all.
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Dec 12, 2016Generally speaking, the beats remain hard enough, and the riffs have a sharp enough edge to maintain Woman’s effect throughout, and the elastic textures created by Augé and de Rosnay display a real lushness, warm and cold in equal measures.
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Nov 29, 2016What works on Woman truly does with aplomb, but it arguably stands as the group’s least unique effort, and with some of that old punk snarl now removed perhaps they’ve lost some of that addictive danger.
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Nov 18, 2016Even if Woman sometimes sounds more like two EPs than a cohesive set of songs, it's still an enjoyable album--especially when Justice use their flair for looking back creatively.
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UncutNov 15, 2016Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay balance their belligerent side with a refined, progressive sensibility, a side increasingly foregrounded on Woman. [Dec 2016, p.30]
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Nov 17, 2016While Justice avoided breaking new ground with Woman, the 10 tracks still manage to remind us why we fell in love with them in the first place.
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Dec 2, 2016Woman does provide Justice’s most human sound to date, if you will. That sound is made particularly clear by including more singing and lyrics than they’ve been known to do. Despite so many tracks feeling substantially longer than called for, Justice presents new ideas and a sound fuller here.
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Nov 30, 2016There are some infectious grooves here and there but they don’t crackle and snap the way they once did.
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Nov 21, 2016The price to pay for Woman’s increased musicality is, perhaps, a drop in beat punishment. But you can’t begrudge Justice this laudable attempt to one-up Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories.
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Nov 17, 2016Woman is surprisingly banger-lite, a totally serviceable one-night stand rather than a torrid love affair. Maybe give it another 10 years.
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MojoNov 15, 2016Woman looks set to keep the leather-clad pair trucking for the foreseeable by bridging the propulsive beats of 2007's sweeping debut with the more baroque, borderline-cheesy prog aesthetic of 2011's Audio, Video, Disco. [Dec 2016, p.89]
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Q MagazineNov 15, 2016Halfway in the album starts to stutter like a mirror ball whose motor is on the blink. [Jan 2017, p.106]
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Nov 29, 2016Much of Woman sounds like music designed by committee, better suited to soundtrack a car commercial than to actively engage the listener.
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Dec 2, 2016Woman is by no means a bad listen, it just isn’t a very original one either.
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Nov 28, 2016An underwhelming record. Kitschy 70’s synths and live drums abound throughout. The lyrics and vocals continue to distract from the true draw of the production.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 55
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Mixed: 10 out of 55
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Negative: 5 out of 55
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