The Two Zeros: The Best Album of 2007 - Cross

"Let's get drunk and freaky fried." - Justice, The Party (feat. Uffie)

It occurred to me as I went through my 2007 library of sound that there hasn't been all that much that's come out in the last 3 years that has made me want to get up to get down. I don't know if it's me and my age or reality but most of the music I've listened to in the last 3rd of this decade is, while not melancholy by any stretch of the imagination, a little more introspective. More headnod and less bombast. More measured and mature, less footloose and fancy-free.

Then there's this. Cross by Justice is an American Apparel ad come to life. It's Vice Magazine in three dimensions. It's sex and drugs and skinny jeans and beards and smelly boys and wild-eyed girls who spend too much time in the bathroom. It's sweat and flashing lights and giant speakers booming. It's the downfall of Lindsay Lohan. It's last night's party.

It makes me want to dance. D.A.N.C.E. And in a world where me shaking my ass doesn't happen nearly as much as it used to, that is cause for celebration.