So after the Framing Hanley thing, apparently I’m the music review bitch now.
 

Do you like games like MegaMan? Not the new ones. Old school ones from the original NES. Because if you did, you’re going to freakin’ love the new Prodigy
album: Invaders Must Die.
I mean, the name itself is a bit of a give away as to what it’s going to sound like after all… Or maybe they’re just being racist, I dunno.

Technically, the album isn’t being released until March 3rd, but with TripleJ playing it all the fucking time, I felt I needed to get it.  I mean, haven’t you heard Omen at least 6 dozen times now? But a bit thank you music pirates that leak shit onto torrents and 256kbs! Bless you, one and all. And also to the Prodigy who actually want you to hear their music online:

 

Anyway, it’s great to see that after nearly twenty years (that’s right – two decades) a band is still able to deliver music that quintessentially sounds like them. 

In a way, it’s a return to their earlier sounding work. Much less industrial, much less violent, and much less over-produced and gritty. Whilst the majority of the tracks would still feel comfortable if you were to suddenly hear them come over the speakers at the club, there are others that are just straight up dance music with a bit of a minor key to the track. <em>Thunder</em> is a stand up example of this, sounding something like Trent Reznor suddenly deciding he was on a Reggae kick. However, it is very reminiscent of work from earlier albums such as Experience.  If you feel you missed out on some of their earlier work because the first time you ever heard them was on The Matrix soundtrack, you can always go here and buy the rest of their music. Mp3s are there if you scroll down.

Perhaps the only thing that’s arguably bad about this album is that not only is every single track in 4/4 time, most have a fairly similar BPM as well. It does make the album flow from one track to the next, like a good concept album where you can only tell the difference between the tracks due to the refrain, it does tend to just lull you into it. It’s not the kind of high “NRG” album that’ll keep you going the whole night because there’s nothing to jolt you out of the groove between tracks.

If you like Prodigy, and you liked the music in games like MegaMan (I’m really serious about that part, It really sounds like a Nintendo soundtrack in parts), this album is a must have. Just make sure you’ve got some good headphones and 40 minutes to relax, instead of having dropped a tab of E.

You might also like to read:

1. Remember when Evanescence were good?
2. Framing Hanley

2 Comments »

1. [...] still waiting for an Indian version of Invaders Must Die. Share and [...]

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2. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die…

   The album posisioned at the top of the UK Album Chart on the 1st of March with 97,254 discs sold, giving them their fourth consecutive #1 album in the UK……

   Trackback by Download Prodigy disc — April 10, 2009 @ 6:09 am

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