Amyl and The Sniffers’ irrepressible charge has caught the attention of many folks in high places, some unexpected. Count Justice among them.
The French electronic act is currently in Australia, for a long-overdue tour in support of 2024’s Hyperdrama, the duo’s first album since 2016’s Woman.
Opening for Gaspard Augé and Xavier De Rosnay on this east coast swing is none other than Kevin Parker, the mastermind behind Tame Impala. On this trek, Parker, the Western Australian production whizz, is playing to full houses from behind the wheels of steel — as DJ Tame Impala.
When Justice gets down to work with Parker, musical magic happens. Golden gramophones, too.
One of their two collaborative efforts, Hyperdrama track “Neverender” collected best dance/electronic recording at 2025 Grammy Awards, for Parker’s first win and Justice’s fifth.
How Parker has only one Grammy to his name, “it’s a big mystery,” Augé remarks.
The Parisian pair was introduced to the sonic beauty of Tame Impala in the late 2000s, and figured there was something in the Aussie water.
“We often think about why does Australia produce some of the best music consistently for the past 60 years. Our theory is that actually being isolated in the physical world might be a big part of that,” Augé says over a Zoom. “There are so many great (Australian) bands throughout the decades and still today. We think that being far away from the world noise plays an important part in that.”
Australia is having a hot rush in electronic dance music right now, led by the likes of Dom Dolla, Ninajirachi, Luude, and FISHER.
“To be honest,” says De Rosnay, “we’re more into Amyl and The Sniffers than the electronic music.”
Justice can’t be faulted for clamoring onto the Amyl bandwagon. The punk-rock outfit has pretty-much owned 2025, a stretch during which they played Glastonbury Festival, earned a BRIT Award nomination, cleaned up at the ARIA Awards with four wins, and scored a first-ever nomination for next year’s Grammy Awards. Amyl’s fiery frontwoman Amy Taylor took her own leap into electronic music this year with “you’re a star,” a collab with Fred Again.
Conversation turns to music, and what’s next for Justice. Should fans expect to wait another eight years for the followup to Hyperdrama, which last year crashed the Billboard 200, at No. 96? “Purely on the statistics,” quips Augé, “I would say a safe prediction for the next album is around 2048.”
Produced by TEG, Justice’s Australia swing got underway Wednesday, Dec. 3 at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena. Next up, Melbourne’s John Cain Arena on Friday, Dec. 5 and Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Sunday, Dec. 7, the final date of a 21-month international jaunt.
It’s a show “that’s about execution,” says De Rosnay. For those in the room, “hopefully you’ll experience something fun, frantic, exhilarating and new, or something we hope that you haven’t heard and haven’t seen before.”
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