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A majority of IMD is destined to end up splattered across car adverts and in film soundtracks where the scene is of a pulsing, throbbing, energetic nature. Sadly, that won't lend it any more substance.
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A statement for all of the limp new rave pretenders to pack up and fuck off, a return to form rarely sounded or felt so exciting.
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Invaders Must Die lacks their freshness and like all supposed returns "to form" it might prove they can compete with the present generation but, ultimately, it's more facelift than rejuvenation.
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From the first track through its final seconds, Invaders joylessly stomps through overly familiar territory. It's another lunkheaded, loud mash-up of rock and dance, a sound now so beefed-up and campy that it's perhaps only suitable for shotgunning cheap beer and practicing UFC chokeholds with your pals.
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It's all pummeling, vacuous rave noise--useful mainly for thrash dancing and scaring neighbors.
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Nothing here genuinely startles the way Firestarter did in 1996.
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They seem afraid to risk a good old-fashioned jungle break-out, the likes of which would be genuinely invigorating.
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Invaders Must Die is a stirringly workmanlike, if retro, blast of founder/producer Liam Howlett's anthemic breakbeat spazz.
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You'd think a group that leaned so heavily on their capacity to shock you off wouldn't wear this unabashed regression as well as they do.
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The Prodigy’s renewed commitment to first principles portends a future as the techno Ramones. There are worse things to be.
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Howlett is no slouch in the production chair, and the sounds are mostly blinding, but the songs are strictly by-the-books.
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In the ugliest way possible Invaders Must Die shows that the Prodigy have still got it.
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MojoYou could muse on the dignity of 40 year olds having a rave revival but when the 303 synth squelch kicks in on soulful closer 'Stand Up,' it's all more pukka than moody. [Mar 2009, p.105]
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Sure, Invaders Must Die contains a pack of interchangeable, vaguely rebellious lyrics aimed at no particular target, but the band sound more exciting than they have in a great while now that they are independent of scenes and movements.
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Under The RadarThe familiarity may be pleasing, but you may ultimately be disappointed when you realize that the original somngs they're emulating are so much better. [Winter 2009, p.81]
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FilterThe Prodigy has been treading water for a few years, most likely looking for the inspiration, sentiment and spooky samples which they now unleash on Invader Must Die--a treat for anyone with a thirst for the twisted and ferocious. [Winter 2009, p.92]
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Invaders Must Die isn’t a bad album, but in the end it suffers from having a beginning which is, if anything, too good.
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The rave revival starts here!
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Flint and Maxim toss off innocuous, vague lyrics in the hope that something sticks. Nothing really does, and the joyless end result is flat-out exhausting.
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Q MagazineThe Prodigy's fifth studio album sounds just like The Prodigy should. Only leaner, harder, and even faster than before. [Apr 2009, p.96]
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Positive: 120 out of 134
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