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.

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Justice never lose sight of the big picture, aiming to blow your minds and sub-woofers with equal determination.

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Take both albums as separate entities and you'll be fine, and if alienation is the upshot, what a way to go about it.

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Whilst it might not be the powerful, dark electro that some fans had been hoping for, there's no denying that the more matured Justice is pretty damn good.

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Mostly, though, the surprisingly warm-blooded Audio, Video, Disco reveals Justice to be human after all.

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Audio, Video, Disco may not sound like prog rock, but one thing is for sure: it is very much a progressive record. And it rocks.

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With Audio, Video, Disco, the duo has created their own realm and progressed into a formidable force.

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Audio, Video, Disco might just be the quintessential example of pop music in the Internet world where everything is available, and available to shuffle, but the main point is good times, great record.

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Four years on and they have made a witty, hooky dance record in thrall to the rock operatics of Led Zeppelin and Queen.

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The result is perhaps less danceable, though a sound that is more recognizably their own.

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They've crafted a cohesive sophomore effort in a world that doesn't require cohesion, setting them apart from their many, many peers. That's admirable.

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It may not be as game-changing or complete as †, but Audio, Video, Disco has the exact same energy, intrigue, ear for melody and air of defiance as the group's glittering debut.

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That push-pull creates a tension that makes Audio, Video, Disco feel like an exciting exercise on the way to something more developed but not a cohesive or particularly welcoming album.

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Audio, Video, Disco may not be as clever and as original as Justice think it is, but it definitely isn't as terrible as everyone else would want you to believe.

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Audio, Video, Disco teeters on the edge of self-mockery, not an unfamiliar position for Justice.

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Audio, Video, Disco preserves the ginormo beats and synth bass of Justice's club jams while adding Seventies-style arena rock.

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They spent all their daring on concept, with little to spare for execution. Even for a duo as image-conscious and savvy as these guys, there is little style in their reduction.

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Audio, Video, Disco has neither creativity nor moxie, except in the sense that Justice is damn determined to give homage to the worst excesses of macho rock posturing.

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It's admirable that they have made such a shameless ode to that which they deem most important to their musical output, or at least what they thought might sell, but the way in which it seems so forced and uncomfortable is the opposite of what anyone would have expected.

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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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