The Day Is My Enemy
by The Prodigy
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 3 out of 19
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  1. Kerrang!
    Mar 25, 2015
    100
    The Day Is My Enemy is the most exciting--and most angrily British--album of the year. [21 Mar 2015, p.52]
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  2. The Telegraph (UK)
    Mar 30, 2015
    80
    They’ve always been more about energy than songs and old fans will certainly pick up on a few recycled ideas. But they’ll still find this the band’s most spirited release since 1997’s The Fat of the Land.
  3. Mojo
    Mar 30, 2015
    80
    Overall, it’s a robust, if somewhat exhausting, showing.
  5. DIY Magazine
    Mar 27, 2015
    80
    The uncompromising rave punk spirit that has driven them for over 25 years seems stronger than ever on a record that will delight old fans and capture a whole new era of angry youth.
  6. The Guardian
    Mar 26, 2015
    80
    This is still a full-throated return to form.
  7. New Musical Express (NME)
    Mar 25, 2015
    80
    Unquestionably, every song has been written to add firepower to the band’s live show, but it’s nonetheless the strongest and most confident Prodigy album since ‘The Fat Of The Land’.
  8. Uncut
    Mar 30, 2015
    70
    The music is mid-paced pummel of snarling electronic bass and beats through which Liam Howlett's nutty synths occasionally sail like a haunted bumper car. [May 2015, p.78]
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  9. Consequence
    Mar 25, 2015
    67
    Sitting mid-album, “Beyond the Deathray” epitomizes this new band-focused approach, and it’s probably the most beautiful track in The Prodigy’s discography; however, the revered schizophrenic beats of the crew hinder this from becoming a “band” album in the popular sense of that word.
  10. Classic Rock Magazine
    May 12, 2015
    60
    The band's sixth album is another uneven mix, but with enough fresh twists and smart cameos to save it from redundancy. [Jun 2015, p.90]
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  11. Q Magazine
    Apr 1, 2015
    60
    A few more songs like the kaleidoscopic Beyond The Deathray would've broken the relentless pace but on the whole this is another shape-shifting evolution in a career full of them. [May 2015, p.103]
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  12. AllMusic
    Mar 31, 2015
    60
    Add the way "Roadblox" provides the cinematic side of Prodigy that's often overlooked and the album seems a triumph, but lead single "Nasty" is a lesser "Firestarter" and at 14 cuts, this chunky effort is built for returning fan club members and not the EP-craving EDM crowd.
  13. Pitchfork
    Mar 30, 2015
    60
    There are easily as many misses as hits on the album, and 14 tracks is probably about seven tracks too long.
  14. Rolling Stone
    Mar 30, 2015
    60
    Unlike their funky, rap-informed late-Nineties peak, The Day Is My Enemy can be obnoxious and same-y after a while--but what good punk isn't?
  15. The Line of Best Fit
    Apr 7, 2015
    50
    We were promised an album of violent thrills, but we just have The Prodigy on auto-pilot here.
  16. The Observer (UK)
    Mar 30, 2015
    40
    An angry buzzsaw of a record that grates and spits for 56 minutes without respite, it marks no great progression for their music.
  17. musicOMH.com
    Mar 30, 2015
    40
    The Prodigy are doing a lot of shoving, but little in the way of solving the problem they’ve identified. If they want to be considered as important as The Sex Pistols, they’ll have to do rather better than this.
  18. Pretty Much Amazing
    Mar 31, 2015
    25
    This LP is as sterilized and recycled as the pop gunk that the band profess to loathe.
  19. Exclaim
    Mar 27, 2015
    20
    The Day is My Enemy is an embarrassing display that inevitably ends badly.
  20. Drowned In Sound
    Mar 25, 2015
    20
    Liam Howlett and the boys embrace their psycho circus schtick on The Day Is My Enemy to the point of suffocation.

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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 98 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 70 out of 98
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 98
  3. Negative: 11 out of 98
  1. Jannis94
    Apr 2, 2015
    10
    Fantastic return from The Prodigy since The Fat of The Land. Certainly there are some hit and misses. But, overall this is a relentless,Fantastic return from The Prodigy since The Fat of The Land. Certainly there are some hit and misses. But, overall this is a relentless, violant and agressive album which needs to be heard by every music-connaisseur.
    There is noone in modern music nowadays which can produce the same sound as The Prodigy does.
    A must have for this year !    … Full Review »
  2. Ultimatesteevil
    Apr 1, 2015
    10
    Easily the most vicious and varied album The Prodigy has ever released…. It is a relentless aural onslaught that needs to be heard throughEasily the most vicious and varied album The Prodigy has ever released…. It is a relentless aural onslaught that needs to be heard through good speakers in a car, or a club- NOT through tinny PC speakers that rob it of it’s full impact. It’s hard to name a best track, since there are so many, but safe to say? There ARE NO ‘weak’ tracks or ‘filler’- And that the already released singles aren’t even the strongest tracks to be found on this disc. Songs like “beyond the deathray” are a very welcome surprise- Almost a Pink Floyd-esque auditory saga. “Destroy” feels like all of Prodigy’s “hooks” distilled into one familiar yet fresh song. And other harder hitting tracks like “medicine”? and “wall of death”? Just WOW. A classic album of absolutely bombastic, high energy, electronic punk brilliance. :)… Full Review »
  3. music_people
    Mar 31, 2015
    10
    I love them! This album is better and more varied IMD.
    There are more powerful tracks than on the previous album.
    Invisible Sun is one of    I love them! This album is better and more varied IMD.
    There are more powerful tracks than on the previous album.
    Invisible Sun is one of the best tracks in the history of the group.    … Full Review »
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