Music — Consumed

2018 · Justice

Woman Worldwide takes Justice's studio precision and runs it through the filter of crowd energy and spontaneous rearrangement. Rather than simply recording their live set, the duo treated their tour recordings as raw material, chopping and reconstructing their catalog into new hybrids. Tracks bleed into each other, vocals get stripped down to hooks, and familiar songs emerge in fragments before dissolving into something else entirely. The production work here is meticulous, every crowd roar and breakdown carefully placed to maintain momentum across the full runtime.

What makes this compelling is how it sidesteps the usual pitfalls of live electronic music documentation. Instead of trying to prove they can perform their complex productions in real time (which they can), Justice used the live context to explore different arrangements and transitions that wouldn't make sense in a studio album format. The result feels more like a mixtape made by the band of their own work, with the audience serving as percussion and texture rather than just ambient noise.

The sequencing builds tension through repetition and variation, calling back to the French house tradition of extended club edits while maintaining the rock structure sensibility Justice has always pulled from. It's a record that works both as a document of their live show's energy and as a standalone listening experience, which is rare for live electronic albums.