The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy

Going right back to their early days with the deeply weird and unsettling 1991 debut single ‘Charly’, The Prodigy have always been a distinctly uncompromising and confrontational group. Their releases may have become ever more sporadic as the years have progressed from their mid 90s peak, however, this just builds up the tension and rage that drives the group until it reaches breaking point and be contained no more. Each Prodigy album is a cathartic release of aggression and energy. Their sixth studio album, ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ may be their most visceral and incendiary record yet.

Liam Howlett. The bands producer, leader and driving force has described the record as being “violent and angry” that is an apposite description for a record that takes the spittle fuelled turbocharged industrial rave bile of The Prodigy at their best and brutalises and bludgeons you into submission. At their best, The Prodigy have always been direct and aggressive and these qualities are featured in abundance here. Indeed, lead single ‘Nasty’ sounds just like you would expect a Prodigy single with that title to sound: Keith Flint as manic and unhinged as ever, while the maelstrom of frenzied electronic sounds clatter around him.