Music Feeds’ Love Letter to a Record series asks artists to reflect on their relationship with the music they love and share stories about how it has influenced their lives. Here, Austrian indie duo Cari Cari show some love for French electronic act Justice‘s debut 2007 studio album ‘Cross’.
It comes as the pair celebrate the release of their own third studio LP ‘One More Trip Around The Sun’ – a bold, immersive journey through self-discovery and artistic evolution, which waves together themes of time, connection, and authenticity into an expansive, cinematic experience. You can stream the record, and read their love letter to Justice’s ‘Cross’ LP, down below.
Cari Cari – One More Trip Around The Sun
Cari Cari: Dear †,
I was sixteen, a rock kid through and through. My world was guitars, distortion, and sweat-soaked mosh pits. I loved The Vines, AC/DC and Slayer. Electronic music? That was for people in white Lacoste shoes, dancing to Tiësto. It didn’t have grit, it didn’t have the raw, unfiltered energy that made rock so intoxicating. Or so I thought.
Then I heard ‘Genesis’.
It rewired my brain. That first sound, that overwhelming thud, the synths screaming like distorted guitars, the drums punching through like they belonged on a punk record—it hit me like a revelation. It was rock & roll without guitars. It was punk without clichés. It was electronic music, but it was alive.
I had no choice but to dive in. I got Ableton, started producing on my own, remixing friends, pulling apart your tracks to understand what was going on. The hunger for something new turned into a movement. We started a party series in my hometown. A scene was born—locally, internationally, connecting with like-minded musicians across the world. And at the heart of it all was Cross and the world that Ed Banger Records had built around it—where music and design weren’t separate things, where a sound could have a shape, where an album cover needed to hit as hard as a bass drop.
Even though Cari Cari might sound different today, the DNA of Cross is still in everything we do. That spirit—of taking what came before and twisting it into something new — that never left. It’s the same spirit we carry when we play live, when we push ourselves into unknown territory, when we make music that doesn’t fit neatly into a box.
The most interesting part? I found my way back to rock music for the very same reason I fell in love with you in the first place. The scene I had once adored—this rebellious, forward-thinking electronic world—had become mainstream. EDM’s rise turned it into a business, the cool kids left, and the rawness started to fade. But I took the spirit with me. The spirit of breaking rules, of merging worlds, of refusing to settle.
That’s the thing about a truly great record—it doesn’t just change what you listen to. It changes you. It opens doors you didn’t even know were there. Cross wasn’t just an album. It was a gateway. And I walked through it, never looking back.
Forever grateful,
Cari Cari
Further Reading
Listen To Tame Impala’s New Song With Justice, ‘One Night/All Night’
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Justice’s Gaspard Augé Calls Justin Bieber’s Album Artwork “A Very Conscious Rip-Off”
