Album Review: Hadouken! – Levitate

I’m trying to imagine in what context you would listen to Hadouken! Their sound has always been a difficult one to place. Either you’ve got to be off your face at one of their gigs, or using them for the audio on one of those ‘People Are Awesome’ videos on the Internet… (oh wait, that has already happened, and has received over 25 million views on YouTube). So what appears to be the problem here with this new album?

Sure they’ve got some beefy drops and heavy riffs on this latest venture ‘Levitate’, but after 3 or 4 songs, never mind the full 12, you get a bit bored of hearing that same structure track after track. That’s before we even get to the Rude Boi-esc vocals you’d more commonly associate with chav culture. Which makes you wonder, who are the bands demographic?

Lyrically they seem to be going for a preachy sort of uplifting, inspirational theme, “We are one”, “Heart in my mouth, but head in the clouds” and “We can stop time tonight, tonight” just to name a few. But again the non-variation of song formula just doesn’t open up for anything of particular interest. With Dub-Step slowly dying out, it just seems a little too late for a band who appear to have made a come back based on a YouTube video. Think of it as the Harlem Shake. It gets very old, very quick.

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