Benny Benassi - Electroman

Benny Benassi's latest album has some pretty average club grooves and thumping bass to drive your car sub to the extreme. It has been out awhile but I've been a little busy listening to other stuff and pretty much forgot this one until now. On the opening cut "Good Girl" he uses the electronic voice which instantly has familiarity bringing his audience into his world immediately. The album has more in common with top 40 pop than one might assume right off the top. When songs like "Spaceship" play through you know that your tween will be all over it because it sings to that crowd with the dumb lyrics and BEP rapping from apl.de.ap, and Jean-Baptiste and the undeniably homogenized Kelis vocalizing 'get high over and over and over again. The single released with Chris Brown guesting is a very boring and does very little for me. I just don't find it catchy or fun at all and there is the problem with the majority of this album.

But then he hits a 450 foot homerun over the scoreboard with a killer track like "House Music" that just drives you to your feet to shake your ass. If this album has more of these type of songs it would be a classic and one of the best dance albums ever made but it doesn't. Gary Go and T-Pain are good enough and improve their tracks enough to make them stand above most of the other tunes on Electroman. Gary Go's "Control" has an immediately lovable intro then breaks into another of the albums best moments. This should have been the albums lead single which would have driven the sales and bringing many new listeners who wouldn't be able to ignore how good this song is.

The inclusion of Skrillex's dub-step remix of "Cinema" to be honest kinda works for me and I am not a dub-step fan at this point. I enjoy a little touch of it now and again but a whole song makes me feel sick. This however works well enough to recommend giving it a listen. Bonus tracks include the Skrillex remix as well as "Put It On Me" with Pitbull and some other extra's which help give the album value but really just buy the three or four tunes that really cook and leave the rest in obscurity where they belong.