LTTGOE: Hadouken!

May 9, 2008

Ahhh! I'm such a procrastinator! I've seen Leeds, UK band Hadouken! mentioned on the pages (and cover once, I think) of NME heaps of times but had put off actually checking out their sound for the longest time. For some reason I associated the exclamation point at the end of their name (which, as you'd suspect, is from a special move in Street Fighter) with Kerrang! magazine, which I don't read because I'm not interested in any of the music it features.

So anyway - last night I was listening to XFM's April playlist - it's a roundup of scads of songs that have been charting and getting massive airplay in the UK. And mostly it's songs that haven't made their way to North America yet. And I heard this GEM called Declaration Of War, and it's by Hadouken!.

It's a brash dancefloor jam with a wicked backbeat - I can't stop listening to it! If you're a fan of genre classifications, Hadouken! describe themselves as a fusion of grimecore and new rave (think Klaxons, New Younge Pony Club, CSS, SHITDISCO). There's also a little bit of Enter Shikari-style electronica thrown in, with MCing and grime breakbeats.

Their debut album, Music for an Accelerated Culture, just came out this past Tuesday (May 5). Can't wait to listen to the whole thing; what I've heard on MySpace is sickeningly danceable. Go listen!

Hadouken! hit the road hard earlier this week on a massive UK tour that includes festivals like Leeds and Reading. Hopefully they'll expand their tour to the rest of Europe, and eventually North America, soon!

Links:
MySpace Hadouken!
Official Site Hadouken!

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