There is little cooler than taking your band name from Street Fighter. Hadouken! are a band that I will admit I would have never have listened to in my youth but I have chosen to now, to challenge my preconceptions of certain styles of music, an my preconceptions have been knocked out.
Listening to the For the Masses album I discovered an energy found in only a select group of musical genres, I also found an odd snse of humour. Though I will admit that I find it difficult to listen to the album the whole way through I found it powerful and catchy with songs like Ugly getting easily stuck in my head. The down to earth, aggressive lyrics share a number of concepts of comedy and realism with bands such as The Streets. The music is hard and fast and something easy to freak out to. But in the end it's all a bit too much, some songs descend in to mere verbal violence and noise that is poorley put together. Yet still I find myself flicking back to the odd song. Overall the album is average at best, but there are some fantastic songs and ideas, it merely needs refining. Plus for all the criticism, these are songs I would welcome on the dance floor of a club being more imaginative and honest in their aggression than some of their counter parts. Appraoching this album I expected to hate it all, labelling it "chav crap", but it is good and I do enjoy it. It is still chavy music, I'm just not sure thats a bad thing now because this album is really, really fun,
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