Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture
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Hadouken!
Release Date: 05/05/08
Label: Atlantic
Rating: 4/10
To begin with there is a problem with the very title of this album. 'Music for an Accelerated Culture'. Where is the music? Where is the culture? Re-hashing the 90s rave scene falls under neither category. At least Klaxons were innovative enough to put the 'new' before 'rave'; Hadouken! are merely cashing in on the Topshop fashions of 2007.
'Get Smashed Gate Crash' has an Enter Shikari feel buried under a lame attempt at Dizzee Rascal, London-influenced grime. Next is that single from last year 'That Boy, That Girl' and credit where it’s due there are lines in this to lift the corners of the mouth in a wry smile and even quite a good beat. There is a feeling of effort and thought into the bouncy refrain “How she’s different is anyone’s guess”. Well, really now, how ironic?
It’s all warped synth and bright colours. Glow stick’ed up to the eyeballs and relying on being categorised in a sub-culture instead of relying on substance and good songs. 'Crank It Up' begins in the same way as every other song on the album; 'rave' bleeps and 'thumping' drums with those horrible spoken vocals and faux-screamo choruses. When you’re defined as part of the 'Myspace Generation' and it's more electro-crass than clash there has to be some warning bells. Although if there’s a market for it then it shall be sold.
'Liquid Lives' is in the same vain of 'That Boy, That Girl' in that it has clever lyrics at the focus (something the band actually do well) rhyming "malicious" with "suspicious" and having a Prodigy-esque sound to it. For their final song on the album it seems Linkin Park is the order of the day. 'Wait for You' takes low, grumbling guitars and beep-beep-beep noises winding around vocals so boring its the one song on the album that could lull you to sleep.
Last year Hadouken! were making waves (of sorts) under the nu-rave, day-glo sounds that were infiltrating summer with infuriating abandon but once the hype wears thin they have little substance to fall back on. Let’s hope the hype wavers soon before Radio One get a’hold of the next single, play it to death and give the nation a headache.
Jade French
Hadouken! Blog
Hadouken! Myspace
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Release Date: 05/05/08
Label: Atlantic
Rating: 4/10
To begin with there is a problem with the very title of this album. 'Music for an Accelerated Culture'. Where is the music? Where is the culture? Re-hashing the 90s rave scene falls under neither category. At least Klaxons were innovative enough to put the 'new' before 'rave'; Hadouken! are merely cashing in on the Topshop fashions of 2007.
'Get Smashed Gate Crash' has an Enter Shikari feel buried under a lame attempt at Dizzee Rascal, London-influenced grime. Next is that single from last year 'That Boy, That Girl' and credit where it’s due there are lines in this to lift the corners of the mouth in a wry smile and even quite a good beat. There is a feeling of effort and thought into the bouncy refrain “How she’s different is anyone’s guess”. Well, really now, how ironic?
It’s all warped synth and bright colours. Glow stick’ed up to the eyeballs and relying on being categorised in a sub-culture instead of relying on substance and good songs. 'Crank It Up' begins in the same way as every other song on the album; 'rave' bleeps and 'thumping' drums with those horrible spoken vocals and faux-screamo choruses. When you’re defined as part of the 'Myspace Generation' and it's more electro-crass than clash there has to be some warning bells. Although if there’s a market for it then it shall be sold.
'Liquid Lives' is in the same vain of 'That Boy, That Girl' in that it has clever lyrics at the focus (something the band actually do well) rhyming "malicious" with "suspicious" and having a Prodigy-esque sound to it. For their final song on the album it seems Linkin Park is the order of the day. 'Wait for You' takes low, grumbling guitars and beep-beep-beep noises winding around vocals so boring its the one song on the album that could lull you to sleep.
Last year Hadouken! were making waves (of sorts) under the nu-rave, day-glo sounds that were infiltrating summer with infuriating abandon but once the hype wears thin they have little substance to fall back on. Let’s hope the hype wavers soon before Radio One get a’hold of the next single, play it to death and give the nation a headache.
Jade French
Hadouken! Blog
Hadouken! Myspace
Buy Hadouken! CDs | Buy Hadouken! mp3s | Buy Hadouken! Tickets | Buy Hadouken! Merch
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