Woman

Pitchfork 5.2/10 Woman’s focus largely plays against the pair’s strengths as songwriters. There’s a restraint on display that, coming from Justice, feels more like a lack of commitment.

The Needle Drop 5/10 The French electronic music duo returns with their weakest crop of songs yet.

NME 4/5 The duo are back to doing what they do best. Only ‘Heavy Metal’, with its spindly keyboard riff, creeps back into prog territory. For the most part, though, ‘Woman’ sees Justice on a mission to move your feet.

The Line of Best Fit 7/10 For 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.

DIY 4/5 ‘Woman’ doesn’t see Justice scaling down their arena-sized anthems, just redefining them. The difference is the weapons they choose: adding some fierce slap to the bass, bringing psychedelic disco to the prog and metal dance mix.

All Music 3.5/5 Even 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.

The Skinny 4/5 While 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.

Clash 7/10 What 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.

The Observer 3/5 The 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.

Slant 4/5 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.

Pop Matters 6/10 Despite so many tracks feeling substantially longer than called for, Justice presents new ideas and a sound fuller here, which I hope is a positive sign for the group going forward.

The Guardian 3/5 Woman is surprisingly banger-lite, a totally serviceable one-night stand rather than a torrid love affair.