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Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy

For some reason I have decided to start to do a review kind of thing every now and then on here for albums that i quite like or that i have been looking forward to. I’m not entirely sure how i should do this but i think i will go for a fairly short review for now and see how i feel about the format once I.

This seems to me almost an amalgamation of the two previous albums as it seems to have a portion of everything that made the prodigy such a well known and popular act.

It has some solid guitar riffs and punk-esque vocals that ‘fat of the land’ possessed that made it such a big hit with rock/metal fans (such as myself). This aspect is extremely prevalent on the song ‘Run with the wolves’ which i believe would not seem entirely out of place on ‘fat of the land’.

It also poses the feeling of freedom that ‘always outnumbered..’ had as Liam Howlett has had the time (around five years) to perfect the beats safe in the knowledge that maxim and flint had the vocal areas well and truly covered. ‘Warriors Dance’ is a good example of a song that shows how Howlett still has the ability to craft a very good dance song.

It is an album that has its moments in songs like ‘Invaders must die’, the already mentioned ‘run with the wolves’, ‘warriors dance’ and ‘piranhas’. Ultimately the album will not be seen as a  great stretch from what you know that the prodigy are able to produce, but more a consolidation of their position atop the current stock of similar bands.

It is a solid album, of that there is no doubt, but nothing more than that. It seems to coast along at a comfortable pace and never really take the risks that made the previous prodigy albums such a success.

I therefore give it a score of 6.5/10 - an adequate album that never tries to be anything more than that.

Posted on Tuesday, March 3 2009.
Words of a man mad enough to know it

Inane waffle being spouted from the mouth of a mad man, not meant to be taken seriously. Ever. Even when I want to be.

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