Hadouken! - Liquid Lives (Atlantic)
4/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
Imagine the best drugs you've ever taken all kicking in at once while you walked down the streets of Brighton smoking a pack of cigarettes you don't remember buying, even though you don't smoke, and then finding yourself having a conversation with your own shoes... such is the emotion to which this dazzling single harks to sustain.
With a name like 'Liquid Lives' it has to be about drinking, and with a senseless attack of words and synth-guitars it's comparable to our generations 'Born Slippy' - that same sense of violence and drink fuelled rambunction in music exists here. Cut away the sounds and verbally it's a very English urban-rap gantry of nu-rave revolution, slapdashed with the momentum of the hardest, sickest transonic beats of the moment. This is one the whole sub-family can enjoy, from the misguided uncle who grew up around the early 90s warehouse party movement to the indie loving younger cousin who's finding contentment in anything hardcore, and certainly anything this inventive.
We're not normally ones for championing this kind of thing, but darn it if this isn't just among the best dance music for a pissed off nation we've heard since Dizzee Rascal exploded onto the scene. The world is a mess, my hair ain't perfect, but f*ck it - this song is ace.
Watch the video to 'Liquid Lives' HERE.
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