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For the Masses (Hadouken! album)

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Released
  
25 January 2010

For the Masses (2010)
  
Every Weekend (2013)

Release date
  
25 January 2010

Label
  
Surface Noise Records

Length
  
43:56

Artist
  
Hadouken!

Producer
  
Noisia

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Recorded
  
Summer 2009 at Groningen, The Netherlands

Genres
  
New rave, Electronica, Dance-punk

Similar
  
Music for an Accelerat, Every Weekend, Mixtape, Split the Atom, In Silico

Hadouken turn the lights out official music video


For the Masses is the second studio album by British grindie band Hadouken!. It was recorded in Groningen, The Netherlands during the Summer of 2009, and preceded by the release of the M.A.D. EP.

Contents

Hadouken for the masses ugly


Track listing

All songs written by James Smith

  • "Ugly" was featured as a dub mix on the M.A.D. EP.
  • Release

    The album was released on 25 January 2010. Fans who pre-ordered the album through the official website received a signed copy a few days early, with their name included on a mini poster inside the case.

    Reception

    Reviews for the album have been mostly negative. Drowned in Sound stated that "This aggressive tone... breaks new boundaries in something absolutely ridiculous", whilst NME feels "James Smith is in the throes of an aneurysm. By the end of For the Masses you might well be wishing one on yourself just for sweet relief." Both reviewers gave the album 3 out of 10 stars. One notable exception to this negative trend was Q, whose reviewer called the album "addictive, energizing, and catchy as hell."

    Hadouken!

  • James Smith - vocals, programming
  • Daniel "Pilau" Rice - guitar, synthesizer
  • Christopher Purcell - bass, synthesizer, samples
  • Alice Spooner - synthesizer
  • Nick Rice - drums, programming
  • Songs

    1Rebirth4:31
    2Turn the Lights Out3:52
    3MAD3:25

    References

    For the Masses (Hadouken! album) Wikipedia