“We were thinking about doing something with a kids’ choir a long time ago. It was the longest process of doing a track because it was all new to us. We had to write the song and the lyrics, and then we went to London to audition some kids. It was really funny and a bit scary too because we wanted a really specific kind of voice. We looked at a few singers, and they were really good technically but they just didn’t have what we were looking for – we wanted something really naïve and a bit clumsy and touching. We ended up with an 8-year-old kid as the lead singer. It was really funny to work with him in the studio, and we had eight other kids as the choir.”

Whether you find it touching depends on your tolerance for little brats trying to teach you a dance routine (“Do the D.A.N.C.E./1 2 3 4 fight/Stick to the B.E.A.T./Get ready to ignite”). Ah come on, you love it. Also on the pop side of things, but with an acidic edge, is the chaps’ collaboration with Uffie, the teenage MC from Miami whose collaborations with DJs Feadz and Mr Oizo are like a Parisian counterpoint to Amanda Blank’s appearances on the Spank Rock album. She’s been the other main plank of Ed Banger’s emergence, and she features on the album track ‘The Party’, her hedonistic rhymes meshing with the Justice boys’ melodic disco. Gaspard is excited…

“With Uffie it was a bit special because when we listened to her stuff we had the secret dream of making our first mellow track, and we wanted to create something a little different from what she’d done with Feadz and Oizo. So we just thought it would be interesting to have these very Uffie lyrics – very bitchy – and a very romantic instrumental behind it.”

So as the album drops and punters are confronted with a huge black cross on the record shop shelves, with song titles such as ‘Genesis’ and ‘Let There Be Light’ on the sleeve, is there some kind of Biblical theme Justice are trying to get across?

“Definitely. It’s 50 percent the pop symbol of the cross which has been used by Madonna and Michael Jackson etc, and 50 percent personal. We don’t want to talk too much about that though – we want people to think what they want.”

‘†’ is out now. (Click here for the review)

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This feature originally appeared in Issue #37

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