And sometimes that sound works and sometimes not. They are a great live band even if most of the audience won’t really care about the new stuff this festival season. They were pioneers, found their unique formula and stick to it. From the pumping start to the furious closer Wall of Death Howlett and his gang keep the status quo alive. The band might not be interested in that fresh blood after all. But these are the exceptions to the rule and a bit more fresh blood would have been nice.īut here’s the key point of the whole PRODIGY phenomenon. Or the surprisingly paced-down Invisible Sun. The almost drum’n’bass like Roadblox as well.
#THE PRODIGY THE DAY IS MY ENEMY MODS#
Ibiza, a collaboration with Britain’s new punk heroes SLEAFORD MODS is pure madness in a very positive way.
Wild Frontier, Rebel Radio and Rok-Weiler are as PRODIGY as a PRODIGY track can be. Same goes for plenty of tunes on the record. The heaviness is still alive although the record’s first single Nasty became a predictable cut and dried PRODIGY single. The title-track opens The Day Is My Enemy with heavy tribal drums as if the band wants to summon its followers for another rave ritual. The album became a statement of strength. Howlett promised an even harder album prior to the release. The message is unmistakable: Even 25 years after their founding THE PRODIGY are still loud, wild and heavy and far from retiring. Six more years have past and now The Day Is My Enemy continues where its predecessor left us. The band decided to settle in its own past whether you like it or now. 2009’s Invaders Must Die was a step back to the well-known PRODIGY formula and felt a bit like the confession of a defeat. Still, the already mentioned 2004 record might have marked a wake-up call for Howlett who was trying to step out of the shadow of the 90s but ultimately wasn’t rewarded with positive feedback for it.
Ever since their groundbreaking 1997 album The Fat Of The Land mastermind Liam Howlett pops out every few years with a new incarnation of the band, sometimes without MC’s Maxim Reality and Keith Flint (like on the flopped 2004 record Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned) and sometimes with them. And they are still there, two decades after Firestarter, still dragging from the success of those glory days in the mid 1990s when their electrifying fusion of big beat, rave and punk rock set the world on fire and made them the coolest band of the planet for at least one year. It’s a cliché to start with such a phrase but we’ll do it anyway: THE PRODIGY are a phenomenon of its own.
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