Toronto - If you have followed this blog, you will know that I have been following this Hadouken! band for awhile now. I first discovered them sometime ago while hitting up their singles ‘Liquid Lives’ and ‘Tuning In’/ Well, after the inevitable one year delay between discovery and actual cd coming into production, the Leeds band finally puts out their debut LP - Music For An Accelerated Culture. It came out Tuesday.
One thing is for certain, the title is definitely appropriate for album. From the opening beat of ‘Get Smashed Gate Crash’ to the closing sounds of ‘Wait For You’, this is one album that does not take its foot off the gas pedal. Incorporating dance beats over some electro bleeps with James Smith spitting semi-rap semi singing vocals, Hadouken! takes what works off their singles and layers them over the entire album. Unfortunately, as we all have discovered in the past few years - a few good singles does not really translate into a good album and I think this is the case.
I found that a lot of the songs sound pretty much the same, and a whole 11 song onslaught of nu-ravey music is too much for my taking. There are some good tracks (’Declaration of War’ is awesome), but I didn’t really find enough variation between the tracks to keep me interested for the entire album which only clocks in at 36 minutes. I guess in the end it just sounded like noise to me. However, if you are a 19 year old neon wearing hipster from the burbs or enrolled in new media arts college, this might be perfect for you.
2/5
Anyways, here is a single of theres that was on Kitsune compilation
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