I will never forget The Prodigy playing at dawn, after the most chaotic night I have ever known. Ultra high, half naked people dancing with the devil surrounded by burning cars and barrels while these guys offloaded their set. I still can hear the masses moaning in what it was true and pure ecstasy.
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But I will probably pass on this one. Nice write up Doc.
Edit: I actually checked it, it has some bangers indeed.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Can't say I hated any track on this album, except Boom Boom Tap.
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Don't have high hopes for this, but it's fuckin Prodigy so I gotta hear it. It should at least be better than the new Crystal Method album.
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Where would this sit in a ranking of their albums? Ive been a fan for a long time and they rarely disappoint. From what ive heard they have broughtback the old school beats of Experience.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Errr, it's of the same quality the last few records have been sat in. It lays out the old school influences quite a lot in the first half of the album, which is pretty cool. It's good stuff overall, I enjoyed it.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I can't wait to check this, last album was fantastic.
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The ratings here seem a bit too low. The album might be in line with their 2000's output, but the singles!!! Simply put, the singles for this album are the best ones they've knocked out since the 90's.
Need Some1 was a decent teaser, sort of like a dubstep-y take on old-school breakbeats with a satisfying chug-chug thump anchoring the main rhythm under the breaks, chopped up vox sample and synth leads. A badass, strutting tune.
Light Up The Sky is an instant classic, hearkening back to the early days with the silly pitch-shifted chipmunk rave vocals, except this time updated with ultra-heavy, driving bass that almost sound like metal guitars and some of the most satisfying, pumped-up hard techno blasts Howlett has crafted since the Voodoo People & Breathe. The song is laced with punky, shouting vocals that are catchy as hell and masterful noise-gated beats that hit hard. Has a real late-90's feel to it.
Fight Fire With Fire might be my favourite track here. It's got an almost metal-rap vibe with an awesome industrial-rock sound reminiscent of Pigface. Fucked up-sounding distortion blasts and funky, throwback 90's-electronica-esque fills framing Ho99o9's aggressive-yet-playful verses form an instantly classic sound, recalling vintage Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, and Pop Will Eat Itself. A contender for track of the year that compliments any EDM, techno, rock, hip hop, alternative, or industrial playlist.
In short... this is everything one could want from the Prodigy in 2018. Glad to have them back at their best again.
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Album Rating: 3.5
fuck dude I'm getting hard
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Album Rating: 3.0
yeah, the singles are nice. but they're just throwback pieces, not anything that pushes the band into new and exciting places.
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Album Rating: 2.5
The beats are undeniably Experience era Prodigy, and there are the occasional moments where you feel like “yeah that’s the Prodigy I remember”... but those moments are so few and far between it’s really hard to herald this album as a return to form for the group. It is not clear what Flint and Maxim’s contributions are to this, which is a shame because Howlett needs hype men for this type of project. I’m glad that they have not taken the obvious route of becoming a dubstep artist; I was listening closely for them to take this into EDM territory or throw some wild glitches in there... too my relief they stay true to what made them popular. I just wish that these songs had some more teeth to them; not once did I feel impelled to dance and some of the “choruses” are just ascending steps on a musical scale. It feels really uninspired.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I agree, it's pretty much retreading old ground. But I'm still digging it.
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This isn't worth a second listen to my ears, but it's way better than the previous album. It does sound like their early stuff which is nice.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Resonate reminded me of a song off Experience if not for the very bassy beat drop in the middle.
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prodigy is more a live experience. their studio albums are all kinda eh
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Album Rating: 4.0
I disagree. I feel that maybe they're best live but I also (and this is a cringey) like them as accompaniment to my imagined action sequences in my imagined films that I concoct while riding the subway to work. Also this album is growing on me. It goes hard.
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Nah man fat of the land is such a good album
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Album Rating: 3.0
I have Fat of the Land at a 5.0, and I don't intend on changing that score. It is their pinnacle album by far.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I wish they tried experimenting more.
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Album Rating: 2.0
First two are their best, Fat Of The Land is amazing too, the rest consists of different variations of not so good-bad.
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Album Rating: 2.5
No 2018 album sunk without a trace quicker than this release
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