"Leap of Faith" is the third single by

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band Hadouken!, the single was released on the bands mixtape ''

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'', the single itself was digitally released on 18 November 2007.

Background

The track is described by the band's official

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website as: The track was released on 12 November on the EP titled ''

'', and then released as a digital single on 18 November 2007. It peaked at number 97 on iTunes. It is also the only single by Hadouken! to be left out of their debut album, '' Music for an Accelerated Culture'', because it does not match the style of other songs on the album, and was written as an experiment. The song is about Teenage pregnancy and Gang violence. "''Leap of Faith''" is the theme song for BBC Two show ''

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'', on the fourth episode Hadouken! were featured on the show playing the single live. The full version of the song was only available on MySpace and the "Love, Sweat and Beer EP". All other releases contain the radio edit of the song.

Track listing

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# "Leap of Faith" (radio edit) - 3:16 # "Leap of Faith" (Shoes remix) - 3.59 # "Leap of Faith" (Chase & Status dub) - 6:19 # "Leap of Faith" (Chase & Status vocal) - 6:21

Music video

The music video was released on 8 October 2007, and was made exclusive to

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. The video was filmed at Grey Court School and begins with the band going towards the basketball court, with a montage of images from the area, the band then set their musical instruments up, and play. As the video progresses more and more special effects are used showing luminous fire and purple cables. The video was directed and created by Bobby Harlow and Stitch That, who also created the videos for Liquid Lives and "

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References

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