Hadouken - Levitate

This is the latest single from Hadouken’s highly anticipated new album Every Weekend. The single effectively sets the tone of the album, showcasing rocky attitude, wrathful productions and restless vocals.

Levitate smoothly glides forward, gathering its strength with a growing drumbeat merging into ponderous vocals from lead singer James Smith and breaking the track into a purposeful stride. Yet, before the composition has time to breathe and prepare itself, it suddenly detonates into a hair-raising, stadium filling pulse of charged house energy. However, an angry growl breaks the new found euphoria and, as suddenly as it came, it vanishes, absorbed by an almighty spiralling dubstep drop. This is partnered with lingering vocals and vigorous drum strikes that litter the track, bruising and buffeting it into submission. A piano, iridescent against the bleak deluge, is short lived and swallowed up once again by a swath of mutating production as the chaotic track tightly crashes rampantly across the soundscape.

The track may be almost five minutes long but its psychotic pace is such a rapid affair that it seems to pour itself into a much smaller timeframe. It streamlines itself into a constantly changing hit, bursting with multiple components that will help it weather well against the numerous plays it will no doubt have in the future.

Rating: 9/10

 

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