Beast
BY Christian Martius
November 12, 2008 13:11
The artist’s muse has always been served well by the trauma of disintegrating relationships, and DJ Champion Et Ses G-Strings singer Betty Bonifassi’s new trip-hop project with Jean-Phi Goncalves is a suitably aggressive take on the incompatibility of the sexes. Bonifassi’s in-your-face approach on Beast’s self-titled album is the antithesis of her beguiling croon on the soundtrack to Les Triplettes de Belleville and the former’s use of her powerful lungs takes a backseat to a succession of vexed rhymes. But instead of being a bile-soaked Blood on the Tracks–style rumination, Beast throbs with an anger you can dance to — if you don’t mind dancing to a mix of breakbeats, driving bass and guitar textures that was already played out a decade ago.
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