Liam Howlett was recently asked to describe his band’s sixth studio album. “Violent is the word that keeps coming up”, was his reply. He’s not wrong. Aggression is the Prodigy’s strongest suit, their belligerence not only a point of difference, but a source of propulsion. After 2010’s curate’s-egg comeback, Invaders Must Die, the Prodigy have found their voice again and, in doing so, have actively plugged their music in to a continuum of bolshiness where punk syncs up with drum’n’bass, rock with hip-hop, dubstep with, er, psychobilly (bonus track Rise of the Eagles covers the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster). It’s the punkiness that’s most notable. It’s there first and foremost in Ibiza, a collaboration with fellow travellers Sleaford Mods, which lays waste to the party island and its “rotten encrusted rocks”. It’s also in the barnstorming title track, featuring another bespoke contributor in Martina Topley-Bird, as well as in the refrain of Get Your Fight On (largely as you’d imagine it) or its Baba O’Riley-referencing breakdown. There are weak spots – Wall of Death regresses into formula, and there is also more than one outing for the Smack My Bitch Up beat – but this is still a full-throated return to form.
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by Paul MacInnes via Electronic music | The Guardian
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