Album Review #5: Hadouken!

Hadouken!
Music For An Accelerated Culture

It is widely accepted these days that if you’ve never heard of Hadouken!, then you really need to get a life! Exploding onto the music scene in late 2006 the bands unique sound completely revolutionised the indie/grime scene.
The original, four, but now five piece set-up from Leeds and London are most famous for their debut 7” ‘That Boy That Girl’ that was released early last year and limited to just 500 copies on the band’s own label Surface Noise. The track was coined an Internet Phenomenon, with the band gaining a huge nationwide fan-base as a result of ‘The MySpace Generation’. It was soon followed up by Top 40 hit ‘Liquid Lives’.
They toured the UK over the summer and autumn of 2007 and released their first EP ‘Not Here To Please You’ in November of last year, which was the first extended play or album in history to be released as a USB.
After the digital-only release of track ‘Leap of Faith’ at the same time as the EP, the band struggled to continue with their identity. With album opener ‘Get Smashed Gate Crash’ they have gone back to producing tracks like ‘That Boy That Girl’, where the band feel the rawness in their sound was what made them exciting in the first place.
Their debut studio album ‘Music For An Accelerated Culture, to be released in a few weeks (May 5th).

Review

Track #1: Get Smashed Gate Crash
Building up a tense and explosive opening James Smith explodes into an exchanted chasm of heart rendering electronic nuclear bombs. "Lets get this party started" exclaims the limey indie grimster. At this point, my palms begin to get sweaty and my pulse races to this contageous infection of electronica.
Get Smashed Gate Crash was released as a 10" vinyl last month and saw Hadouken! fly back to their roots after an experimental EP in 'Leap of Faith' last november.

Track #2: That Boy That Girl
Epic and classic Hadouken! the post Klaxon 2007 hit maybe a little old in new music terms, but to leave this track out of their debut album would be a crime against humanity to say the least.
The hoxton-heros and indie-cindy's of the UK might be filtering out into new spectrums of weirdness this year, but this is still one quality tune.

Track #3: Gameover
The first new track from the band that I've heard as a result of this album, and its clearly not as good as Liquid Lives, but think Bounce with the swagger of Superstar.
The beat is old skool big-beat and the vocals catchy, it rounds off a deafening opening... I might need to turn it down a tad as my flatmates are starting to moan though!

Track #4: Declaration of War
The new single sees the first release of a slow H! song, well slow to some respect. The verses are faster than the chorus which is odd, but works well. On some parts of the song, the keyboard riffs have been nicked from Bounce and cut on the speed a bit, but they really add depth to the sound. The bass is shattering on this track, I think it's James & Co's first attempt at a real pop song, and the media have really picked up on the poppyness, which is a shame, because I think its a great song.

Track #5: Mr Misfortune
Possibly the closest song on the album to 'That Boy That Girl' B Side 'Tuning In'. "Don't Be Down in the Dumps" James opens to the darkness of H!, fusing a bit of grime and garage with break-beat goodness. The lyrics are class and it placing on the album splits up the old skool H! with the new songs they've recorded over the past few months.

Track #6: Crank It Up
Just when you think they might be letting up on the tunage, they drop a H!-Bomb!
Crank It Up is this albums answer to the current state of the music industry. Its cheesy lyrics are really remeniscent of yet again, Bounce, but with an insane beat that pumps up the album bigger than a pornstars 'special' lips!

Track #7: What She Did
H!'s attempt at some Dub-Step and some Acid-House beats. This album really is getting better and better with every listen. I can't understand how NME have slated the album and given it a 6/10, its far greater than that!
What She Did is brain churning electronica, and you can really see the influences of Kernkraft, Prodigy and Crystal Method coming through into certain parts of this track. There is no mercy for anyone listening to this album, it's not possible for anyone to arise from the ashes of Music For An Accelerated Culture the same person prior to it.

Track #8: Driving Nowhere
Possibly an opening gig track, Driving Nowhere is the experimental song of the collection. The sort of song you write, frustrated and stressed with song writing, as evident with the Biffy Clyro esc beats on 2:37 onwards. I think this track suggests the spectrum of sound that the band can cover, this track is short and to the point. H! want to let people know the time spent since their first single release early last year wasnt spent didding about clubbing and getting pissed, they are on a mission that they want to finish, and finish well.

Track #9: Liquid Lives
Drink! Smoke! Fuck! Fight! Ok, maybe some of the time was spent getting rather a bit too pissed, but it's what the band are all about, not standing around at gigs 'apreciating music' as the old-folk like to call it, but getting off your tits and making some darn loud noise!
Always will be my favourite track from H! the message is timeless and it will stand the test of the time as one of the lyrics of this decade, if there is anythng to remember this weird decade by?

Track #10: Spend Your Life
A social mockery song, finally something to do with a wee bit of politics. I'd thought James wasn't capable of writing such a song until I interviewed him with my podcast (http://www.earstotheskies.com) just a couple of weeks ago. That's when I found out for myself that he isn't just a rock star, hes actually a pretty intelligent so n so, who knows exactly what is going on in the world, and don't flamin' like it.

Track #11: What For You
This song almost acts like the morning after pill, or some nurofen after a night on the town. It seems to clense all the nastiness and filth from a night out at a H! gig. The album closes on a downer, but you can't really notice it after the previous 10 track rape of your entire body

Verdict

If there are any problems that I've got with the album, then I would tell you; but I don't. It's not perfect in a sense that, it's going to leave you feeling as if you will never hear a better constructed and written album EVER; but to be honest for me, there's nothing wrong with it. It's got all the ingredients of Hadouken! and with the band exploring a more electronica sound rather than sticking to the 'nu-rave' tag they seemed to have developed out of choice of other critics.
There's a lot of indie/electroness out there at the moment, Does It Offend You, Yeah?/Justice/The Whip/Kissy Sell Out/Simian/Late of the Pier, however, for me Hadouken! are the band that started it all. Obviously not started it all, we'll leave that down to the good old Minimoog and Yamaha YX-7, but they seem to have inspired a lot of top new bands that were born around the same time post-Klaxons to explore a more electronica based sound, reminiscent of the 90s LA Scene and everything that goes with Prodigy and Crystal Method. If Hadouken! could produce a second album anything near to the par in a conventional-band sense of 'Music for the Jilted Generated' or 'Vegas', then fuckin' bring it on!

9/10

Monthly Playlist - February 2008

Bonjourno!
Again this is slightly later than I planned to get posted! However I have had a mammoth of a last 36 hours and was unable to post this entry before I left for London for the NME Big Gig at the O2.
I can say with quite convincing confidence, that it was one of the best nights of my life. I managed to get covered in deep scratches, bust a nice pair of shoes; see Zane Lowe DJ to the max, and watch the Geniusness of five bands I had previously not seen. Witness the biggest Royal Welsh Regiment band ever on stage, get blinded by the biggest laser i've ever seen in my life; touch Ricky Wilson's mic, lay my hands on and keep the graciest of all creations that be Sean Moore's drumstick, crowd surf to 'Atlantis to Interzone' twice and get myself into a picture of the afterparty that's now on NME.com. Next week I will have the biggest gig review of the Music event of the Year, so get prepared for it.


#10: Team Waterpolo - Letting Go
Debut single from the Preston four piece who recently supported CSS on their NME Album Awards tour show at the astoria. This track was also featured as track of the week in NME. If they can keep up this persona for their album, they could sell well. This track is as catchy as Kylie's classic 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'. It was released this week (24th Feb) on Moshi Moshi Records. Check out their MySpace for more.

#9: The Rascals - Superstitious Wit
Interesting release from the Liverpool setup. Out of the ashes of The Little Flames and minus Eva, they're inevitably going to benefit from their Monkeys' connections and Miles' duet album with Alex Turner. I can't help but think this song is a teaser for their much grittier demos like 'Is It Too Late?'. Released 18th Feb on Deltasonic, check out their MySpace and keep an eye out for them this year.


#8: The Harrisons - Take It To The Matress
This is the 6th song to appear on the their debut album 'No Fighting in the War Room', lets forget Monkeys' and Kaiser comparisons. NME feel this song is similar to 'Mardy Bum', yeah of course it does, if you happen to live in Glasgow. I saw the band live last year at the Astoria supporting The Enemy and didn't take much notice of them at first, but upon the release of the single 'Dear Constable' they struck me as a dark horse of modern indie, and this latest song is classic Britpop, with amazing countering riffs and lyrics, defintaly recommend a listen! Check it out on their MySpace.


#7: REM - Supernatural Superserious
The first release of the upcoming album 'Accelerate', and a return to classic REM we all love. This song isn't likely to turn many heads or light up the music scene in the way Radiohead have done in past 25 years of their existance Nor will it touch millions of people and define a generation of American culture like 'Everybody Hurts'. However, it is typical REM, and I would queue for hours to finally see this mammoth of a band live in concert.


#6: H two O Feat. Platinum - What's It Gonna Be
The hottest track to emerge from the UK Underground scene since T2's Heartbroken smashed it's way into the charts before christmas. Released this week, expect big things from the brunette and her gang of dancing school monkeys, this track'll be hitting it up in clubs up and down the country for years to come. Check out the video on youtube here and just dribble at that tantilising arse! Just ignore the Timberland wannabe 'Platinum'. Just put your fingers in your ears when the teenage rats start playing it out loud on public transport nationwide.

#5: Linkin' Park - Given Up
Despite the band being around for ten years now, they've only chucked out three studio albums, and lets be honest 'Meteora' wasn't a great follow up to the Diamond certified mammoth 'Hybrid Theory'. However, this latest single reconnected me with the band's new direction, that comprises sharp guitar melodies with a the brash nu metal presense of the 2000s era. Linkin Park' are back with a big bang and their next studio release is likely to cement Bennington and Shinoda as Rock Gods.


#4: Hadouken! - Get Smashed Gate Crash
Countless brilliance as always from the Watford/Leeds setup whose debut album 'Declaration of War' is currently in recording and should be out sometime during April.
This track should be the 5th song to appear on the album. It was uploaded to the band's MySpace just last week, and I've found myself shouting out the lyrics at the top of my voice on more than one occasion. Once some old lady on a train told me to "Shut the fuck up". If Hadouken! had been there, they probably would have mutilated her to death with their instruments!

#3: Late of the Pier - The Bears are Coming
Boasting the strangest, weirdest, but best music video I've seen this year and with a debut album hotly on the way, Late of the Pier are turning heads in all directions. If they don't appear at Glastonbury or Reading this year, I will poke my eyes out with a syringe!
The euphoric chestation of this track is partly due to the fact that the band literally bang on their synths. Imagine the Keyboardist of 'The Horrors', wacking Elton John's finest piano and you have this song down to a tee. Other hits such as 'Bathroom Gurgle' are on their MySpace.

#2: MGMT - Time to Pretend
Lighting up indie clubs up and down the country with their sureshock thunderbolt beats, and keyboard licks that sounds like collecting rings on Sonic Adventure. Their debut album Oracular Spectacular makes a mockery of a society falling flat on it's face. If only we could build lightspeed spaceshits and travel from atlantis to interzone, then maybe Brooklyn based grusome twosome would make the world alright again. 'Time to Pretend' will be released Monday 3rd March on Columbia Records.


#1: The Mars Volta - Goliath
This track has been driving me crazy ever since my course mate 'The Only Thing... I Know For Sure' recommended their new album to me a few weeks ago. If your a fan of Muse or Bloc Party, you'll love the systematic rapage of your speakers this song endevours. Exploding your mind to overdrive and casting down your soul to the devil. The Mars Volta will be the only heroin substitute you'll ever need. This is the longest song in the playlist, but it's roar sound and cataclismic beats from start to finish make it my favorite song this month!

"Our Liquid Lives... This is How We All Survive"

This is a blog I've been wanting to write for a long time, but i wanted to wait for the right moment! I've left this blog a couple of days longer than I wanted to, simply because I could not of wrote it during the weekend.
On Monday (Feb 18th) I went to see Hadouken! at the Camden Koko, London, as part of the NME Awards Tour shows. A night of bruised ribs, one crushed toe nail, a very good night on the town, a random trip to Enfield, a long train journey back home to university and two full days of recovery later, I've decided to now sit down at 5:25am on Thursday (Feb 21st), to write about it!

First and foremost I will do a short gig review and just about the crazy, surreal night that ensued after the gig, then I will do a review of the band as a whole, that doesn't include my physical pleasure and pain, but more my emotional and psychological exctacy for one band that has been running for almost a year now.

I left the jolly town of Farnham after a short trip to Sainsbury's with my course mate Mike (whose blog is in my cool blogs, I urge you to check it out, his music taste is very different from mine, but his content is just as exciting, and his take on bands explores a much larger range of musical tastes, beliefs and religion. I urge you to give him a read!), to stock up on chocolate and sweets to acompany my Magners for the train journey up to Camden. The journey itself was not anything too special, I shared a train to woking with some other course mates and compared funny stories in the papers, but from then on, it was me mainly listening to my iPod and munching on Sainsbury's double chocolate cookies and downing cider. However, upon the train pulling up into Clapham Junction (supposedly Britain's Busiest Railway Station! MY ARSE! If anyone has ever been a part of a Waterloo Station Rushhour, then you know what I'm talking about) the most wonderful sight bestowed my eyes. The most perfect example of the visual spectrum of light was projected onto dusk sky, looking out to the east of London, there was the most beautiful glowing red sky that made me take my earphones out just to apriciate it anymore. If anyone was at Clapham Junction at around 5:50pm on Monday 18th February, or walking across Vauxhall Bridge at the time, you will know what I am talking about. Anyway back to the story.
I got the tube as usual, Northern Line to Mornington Crescent, took a piss in the pub across the road, and made my way to the line for the gig, got inside and got a bit bored at the girl I was due to meet (a friend from Primary school I had not seen for almost 8 years had only just left Epsom) was not there yet, so I made my way to the front of the crowd to see the only act I bothered to see besides Hadouken! David E Sugar is a slightly funny man, with a taste for weirdly long fringes that have no point whatsoever, I think i got his set list, but I couldn't get any of the names of his songs from the groaning he put on thru the mic. Also before I go any further has one else noticed that in the last few months, roadies have resulted to groaning into mics for soundchecking. Finally, they've realised after 50 odd years that appearing as if you can't count past the number 3 in front of a large crowd makes you look like a complete dick!
Anyway to skipping that, Sugar played a varied set of electro goodness that was good enough to get my feet tapping, when I was interrupted by someone saying, yeh look thats Lee...

To my right stood a rather much taller boy with much longer hair than I remember called Chris. A boy whose probably in the upper sixth form at the moment as he was in the year below me at Primary school. I used to knock about with him and play football with him almost every day during the spring and summer months, I had a short chat with him, but lost him when I went to the bog so I need to search for him on Facebook, not that I can remember how to spell his surname!
That's just the first of the weird things that happened that night. Finally the girl I was due to meet showed up, and I used her coat to snag one of the NME posters of The Enemy to add to my collection of their stuff (that she seems to think shes now going to keep. cheeky cow!) We had a good chat had one of those awkward, but good yeah-ive-not-seen-you-for-8-years-fuck-me-your-hot-now sort of hugs, but we ended up getting separated after she managed to snag some back stage passes, again, cheeky cow!

I went outside to the Sainsburys local just a few buildings down to snag some Stella, as it is £3.80 for a single pint in the Koko, this is the one and only reason I hate London, other than that its the greatest place to live on Earth!
Then was about to go back inside, when I noticed more people from school, except who are still at secondary school, now in the lower sixth, yet more weirder!
They invited me back in to do some 'raving'; now this sounds all yeh come on 'lets rave, im pissed' but when your over 18 and you end up with a group of 16-17 year olds who have more glow sticks than the whole of Ibiza put together and you combine that with the most pathetic excuse for an indie-'rock' band i've ever heard, you tend to get bored. So I went back to the bar in hope of finding my old school mate, when I saw yet another blast from the past, yet not so long ago, a girl I'd met at one other Hadouken! gig I'd been to previously, who'd I'd planned to meet up with before, but never really got round to. She was quite a lot more fun and demanded we get more alcohol, which of course you agree on after the 8 pints you've already had! So making our way to the stage 5 minutes before Hadouken! are due on stage, and as you do, you push through scores of people to get pushed more, and get more sweaty.
James Smith comes out onto the stage and yells to the crowd something I can't remember as there was one great oaf in front of me, and another to the side with his elbow in my ear trying to see what was going on, typical!

As the band launched into the thumping song 'Bounce' I could not contain my excitement as I punched, kicked and elbowed as many annoying people I'd made a note of doing so earlier in my head, and jumped around and "Bounced My Balls" just as James had told me to. When a band like Hadouken! plays two of their best songs one after the other, many people get very excited, and one man launched himself upon the crowd, without his top on. This was of course very stupid, as he was quite a chubby so and so. So there he was having the time of his fucking life, crowd surfing to 'Liquid Lives' when around one hundred drunken teenagers are slapping his belly as hard as they can, me included, just to tell you how much of an arsehole you are for taking your top off.

As the songs were pumped into my system with a pnumatic drill, my heart thumping, every limb aching beyond all logical thought, and now just two rows of people from the front, I saw Sophie (my old school mate) out of the corner of my eye with her friend watching the gig from the side of the bloody stage, the lucky swines.
As Hadouken! came to the end of their set, I could tell that it was going to be very hard to get anything physical to savour from the midst of this ensuing mine field of bodies, sweat, blood and tears. However, all of the pain in the world, was lost amid the news that the set was coming to an end, and the thunderbolt of bass being syringed into my skeleton rang true to my brain and James yelled the most famous of his lyrics, "That Boy's a Hoxton Hero... That Girl's an Indie Cindy". This was the fifth time I had seen the band live, but never in that time have i been thrown in so many directions, actually never before in my entire life, have I been injured in so many places on my body in the space of a few seconds.

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During the 3 and a half minutes of madness that ensues during this song, I could mentally count around 1million times I was punched and elbowed in the face by people around me. The best thing about this song was being right in the middle of the crowd, one row of people from the front, with my hands in the air out to the side, and yelling every single lyric as if it were the last words I would ever say in my life! You can pretty much tell, that after 10 pints and a Hadouken! gig later, I am possibly one of the happiest people alive!
I stood on the barrier for at least 20 minutes trying to get various bits of Hadouken glory as I hadnt at any gigs before, When a very nice roadie threw me the last set list on offer, and to him I am enternally great full.
The night was only beginning here however, as upon me getting outside of the gig to try and get my set list signed, two girls confronted me who wished to know how I had managed to get a set list, after doing this, these two girls got quite friendly with the Keyboardist of the band Alice, and I ended up being invited to The Lock Tavern with the band and a few other, to meet up with Barney, Murphy and the Legendary Doren of The Ghost Frequency! One of the band I have reviewed just a few weeks ago on this blog. Alice introduced me to Doren, and I immediately started to quiz him on the possibility of getting the band to play at my university's Student Union, which to a great success they would be thrilled to do, and all hoping that the meeting with my Vice President later today goes smoothly, they should be confirmed to play here after easter :D! I mean talk about all the luck in the world and multiply it by 50trillion and you are still not there on this one!

The two girls (whose flat in Enfield I was now crashing at, due to me completely forgetting about the last train from Waterloo), I was with had also just spotted another famous face, Jason from the legendary 5ive, was also in the same pub, and after many jokes and shouting lyrics in his face later, he repeatedly denied that these acts had ever occured in his past, and blamed it at the acute Amnesia he had just developed just 5 minutes prior to meeting us.
After making our way out of the pub after it had closed, we said goodbye to the bands and made our way to the N279 night bus stop on route to enfield. I'll skip most things as it's not really important, but we spent most of the night up chatting about shit and one of the girls drew me a map on how to get to the station. After no sleep and one of the most random nights of my life I left their university flat at the University of Middlesex, to get a morning 8am train from Southbury station back to Farnham, which cost £16.90. I did all of this travelling, a whole 2 and a half hours, just to attend my 11am Radio Journalism lecture, arn't I just a model student!
Possibly one of the most random blog 'beginnings' in world history but still worth a read, I think anyway!

Hadouken! - The Youth of Britain Finds It's Voice

Hadouken! were according to Wikipedia formed in September 2006, however, I'm pretty sure it was before this, as I'm pretty sure the band performed at the Reading Festival in 2006 unless im wrong, but anyway. Their a 5-piece setup, which is composed of James Smith on lead vocals, Dan Rice (Pilau) on Guitar, Chris I believe plays Bass and Nick plays Drums, but I could have them the wrong way round, I'm not really sure. Then the stunning blonde bombshell, who I found out on monday night is one of the nicest people you could ever meet, plays Keyboard and Synths.
They're one of the bands who've been thrust into the whole 'new rave' scene and branded as scene and all that jazz.
They're musick is a mixture of genres that stems from their love of Rock, Dance, Grime, UK Garage, Hip-Hop, RnB, House and other Urban/Dance genres. Personally I would create a new genre called 'Fucking-Ace', but thats not going to happen. So I guess we're stuck with calling them Grindie, as Wikipedia puts it.
With a string of releases to date, and the first band ever to be release an EP/Album on USB Memory Stick, Hadouken! are finally getting to critical acclaim that they deserve outside the relms of NME.
The composition that they comprise, with combining dance beats with James' Hip-Hop and Grime lyrics, makes them the most unique band I have ever listened to. There is no chance you could listen to a Hadouken! track, and mistake it for the work of any other band.
They have stated many times, they just like to be completely different and ahead of their time. Now wanting to be different from 'every other band' is an easy thing to say, and it's said by almost everyone these days. However, Hadouken! everything they do and say is different. It's as though they are reinventing the rule book about how music is listened to, released and generally accepted by people.
Their MySpace has some 4million plays worldwide, If every single time someone played a Hadouken! track in 2007 was scrobbled by LastFm we'd be looking at a 9 digit figure.
Hadouken!'s debut release 'That Boy That Girl' was hailed as an Internet Phenomenon in by the NME and cemented them as one of the defining acts of 2007; without a shadow of a doubt.
Just before they played 'That Boy That Girl' as the last song of the gig I attended on Monday, James exclaimed to the crowd, that this is the last time the band would be touring in their current state, and that their set would be completely transformed in the future to accomodate with the Spring 2008 album release.
One new track on the album is 'Get Smashed Gate Crash', which was just uploaded to the band MySpace recently. Its a gloopy, gigawatt of disco venom all packaged up and delivered to your nervous system like a herorin injection. A lyrical description of a house party you attended when you were 13, when you "got laid on the parents bed" and "get sick on the landing carpet". Their tracks are like a disease, and with no known cure to this mayhem, you are forced to hit the replay button over and over again, just to savour every last echoing rip of thaose contageous beats.
Something that I think could be possible is Hadouken! claiming a No.1 with this album. It would be tight, but seeing The Enemy being able to pull it off last summer, it could happen. Most fans are people under the age of 20, who mostly download music, so if enough people 'legally' download the album, I definately will be, then we could see something that would shut up the 'nu rave' haters right up. An act that on the gracing release of 'That Boy That Girl' showed the UK just how ahead of their time they were.
I've set up a Facebook group to try and get Hadouken! to No. 1, join the group and buy this album. Hadouken! off on the road on a European tour next month are going to just keep getting bigger and bigger this year. I will add that If before now you've not even heard of this MUSIC INSTITUTION, then fucking get on it!
http://www.myspace.com/hadoukenuk

Track of the Week
The Rascals - Suspicious Wit

My '"oh so holy" song of god this week comes from the northern showpiece known simple as The Rascals. Even though singer Miles Kane happens to be a mutual friend of Christ himself Alex Turner, they are not where they are now, simply because of their connections. Two full days with the Monkeys at their Old Trafford Cricket Ground gigs back last summer and a December 2007 UK Tour that included venues such as Alexandra Palace and the Men Arena, has not managed to mount the band a firm enough grasp to release many singles.
This week however, they launched their suposed finest piece of work 'Suspicious Wit' unto the masses of the United Kingdom and obviously I like it, or it would not be gracing this mammoth of earthly wonders 'weekly information superhighway slot'.
You can really see the similarities between Miles' and Alex's voice, the harmonious high notes and the clever lyrics acompanied by a poinent bass really kick off this song to a high note. It's a little on the short side, and personally for me it's also not the best song they've made. Listen to this song by all means, but if you really want to get a gist of The Rascals, check out 'Shades of Embarissment' and 'Is It Too Late'; the riffs on these piledrivers are so unique, even Mark Ronson would find it hard to cover them.
There is no video available for this song, so I suggest heading over to their MySpace.

http://www.myspace.com/rascalmusic

Video of the Week
Panic At The Disco - Nine in the Afternoon

Slightly off cue from my usual plugs. Something slightly interesting happened recently, Panic! At The Disco, have dropped the '!' from their name. Therefore they are now called Panic At The Disco. How very quaint. They've apparently grown up in musical terms, and after a listen to this recent song, the first single off of their new album 'Pretty. Odd', I agree. They've experimented with many new instruments that all apart from just a few they played themselves, and the album was recorded in Abbey Road, so expect wonderful things. It's also obvious from the video that, they still have their old wacky bahaviour and nack for weird videos, however for purely walking about in the middle of the street with a massive band at 'Nine in the Afternoon', and playing in their pajamas, it'll get their female fan base out in drobes, purely hoping they'll wear the same on stage. Let's hope not, and this new direction may just work.