Justice have recruited Miguel for their new single “Saturnine,” the latest high-profile collab from the French duo after they shared the Tame Impala–assisted “One Night/All Night” back in January. The duo also confirmed their new album Hyperdrama’s tracklist, in doing so sharing the list of additional collaborators which include Thundercat, The Flints, Rimon, and Connan Mockasin. The album is out April 26.
The new cut is a retro slab of disco-funk, featuring subdued synths, paper-thin drums, and plenty of space for Miguel to showcase his shimmering falsetto. “It started with Gaspard [Augé] playing around with an E-mu synthesizer guitar sound, and he found the main riff,” the duo shared. “The rest came very quickly. We love Miguel’s voice when it’s raw. We wanted him to sound outrageously frontal, with no space around his voice. We felt confident we could make this work with a single mono take of his voice, and minimal processing. It also suited the theme of the song, that’s this sort of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sweaty, hallucinatory flow. Feeling well in feeling bad.”
I, too, thought Miguel’s voice sounded outrageously frontal when I first heard the song. Decide for yourself by checking it out below. You can pre-order Hyperdrama here.
