Hadouken!
Every Weekend


3.0
good

Review

by KaiLFC8 USER (3 Reviews)
November 2nd, 2013 | 18 replies


Release Date: 2013 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Verdict: the album does tend to get repetitive and clocking at a grand total of over 50 minutes, some of the songs on the album outstay their welcome, although there are a few great tunes. Furthermore, there is a mix of great songs such as ‘Levitate’

‘Every Weekend’ by Hadouken! has a more rap orientated edge to the album than previous records 2011’s ‘Music For an Accelerated Culture’ and 2009’s‘For the Masses’. The alum kick starts with ‘The Vortex’ with Prodigy- esque bass lines and animosity with lyrics such as ‘“Each and every weekend/ we spend it like the whole worlds ending”encouraging hedonistic lifestyles as well as sounding like one of Tyler Durden’s inspirational speeches from‘Fight Club’.Front man Jamie Smith spits the lyrics out aggressively although the song does start to get a bit repetitive.
The next track ‘Levitate’ is the stand out track of the album and incorporates electro pop with Jamie smith’s old school gospel vocals as well as the pulsing beats that define Hadouken! and is a mix of material from ‘For the Masses’ and ‘Music for an Accelerated Culture’ which would no look out of place in an Ibiza nightclub. ‘Bliss Out’ is another great track from the album. Fans of FIFA 13 will probably recognize this tune about the delicacies of getting high and is homage to late night benders and hangovers the next morning. There is an effective transition from the peaceful and slow chorus in comparison to the verse which is more gritty and ominous.
‘Spill Your Guts’ disrupts the happy momentum and features Smith rapping furiously over bleak dubstep beats and a warp of swirling electronics and is infectious and is all in all a good listen. Like ‘Bliss Out’, ‘The Comedown’features the trnasitions from clean melodies to gritty gtime rap in the verses, although the song isn’t as catchy and uplifting as the former.
‘Parasite’ is probably the darkest song on the album with its Jamie Smith on the verge of meltdown with his Oli Sykes-esque vocals that wouldn’t look out of place in death metal music. The track also reinforces the message that Hadouken! are not afraid to be aggressive unlike other drum n bass bands such as the cautious Pendulum. ‘Parasite’ also seems destined to be a crowd favorite during live shows.
‘Bad Signal’ narrates the impact of social media although the puns and lyrics fall flat as the song is truthfully entirely pointless, although the song features a catchy chorus, cleverly sampled from ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’ by The Supremes.‘As One’ is catchy and infectious although the song features a bizarre mid-section with Europop keyboards that does not match the nature of the song.


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bloc
November 1st 2013


70683 Comments


Listened to this once and forgot about it. Band has a few good songs though.

Brostep
Emeritus
November 2nd 2013


4491 Comments


please please paragraph break

will try to read once that happens

theacademy
Emeritus
November 2nd 2013


31865 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

all the best songs on this came out way before the album did



but those songs r so good

bloc
November 3rd 2013


70683 Comments


all the best songs on this came out way before the album did

but those songs r so good


I couldn't agree more. Mecha Love, Oxygen, and Parasite all rule.

bloc
September 3rd 2017


70683 Comments


Oxygen and Mecha Love still fuckin slap

ChrimzonCanine
July 16th 2020


2080 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Oxygen is one of the weaker ones on here. Levitate, Parasite and Mecha Love bang tho.

bloc
July 17th 2020


70683 Comments


Yeah those songs are also killer

Mort.
July 17th 2020


26085 Comments


these guys were massive in the uk at one point. feels like nobody really remembers them anymore tho

Digging: Mamaleek - Out of Time

ChrimzonCanine
July 25th 2020


2080 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

They were kind of a trend back in the late 2000s. But yeah, everyone's completely forgotten about them now.

BenThatsMyJamin
January 16th 2021


4014 Comments


8 years later Bliss Out is still stuck in my head courtesy of FIFA... great chorus on that song

parksungjoon
January 16th 2021


47231 Comments


completely forgot this existed

these guys were massive in the uk at one point. feels like nobody really remembers them anymore tho [2]

They were kind of a trend back in the late 2000s. But yeah, everyone's completely forgotten about them now. [2]

recall levitate being kinda catchy at the time but i doubt i want to come back to this lol

Pikazilla
January 16th 2021


31198 Comments


Yeah, they were massive when Music for an accelerated culture came out

Hated it since day one lmao

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
January 16th 2021


10447 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Shit yeah I forgot about these guys, were big when I was at school, though my rating would suggest that I used to not like them all that much

parksungjoon
January 16th 2021


47231 Comments


you can bang the drum you can bang the drum

Mort.
January 16th 2021


26085 Comments


BRING IT ON

parksungjoon
January 16th 2021


47231 Comments


i have music for the masses 1.5d apparently

might just remove that entirely at some point

BenThatsMyJamin
January 16th 2021


4014 Comments


This sound has definitely aged badly

parksungjoon
January 16th 2021


47231 Comments


probably lol



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