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Kerrang!Mar 25, 2015The 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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Mar 30, 2015They’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.
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Mar 30, 2015Overall, it’s a robust, if somewhat exhausting, showing.
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Mar 27, 2015The 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.
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Mar 26, 2015This is still a full-throated return to form.
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Mar 25, 2015Unquestionably, 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’.
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UncutMar 30, 2015The 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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Mar 25, 2015Sitting 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.
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Classic Rock MagazineMay 12, 2015The 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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Q MagazineApr 1, 2015A 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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Mar 31, 2015Add 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.
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Mar 30, 2015There are easily as many misses as hits on the album, and 14 tracks is probably about seven tracks too long.
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Mar 30, 2015Unlike 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?
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Apr 7, 2015We were promised an album of violent thrills, but we just have The Prodigy on auto-pilot here.
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Mar 30, 2015An angry buzzsaw of a record that grates and spits for 56 minutes without respite, it marks no great progression for their music.
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Mar 30, 2015The 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.
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Mar 31, 2015This LP is as sterilized and recycled as the pop gunk that the band profess to loathe.
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Mar 27, 2015The Day is My Enemy is an embarrassing display that inevitably ends badly.
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Mar 25, 2015Liam Howlett and the boys embrace their psycho circus schtick on The Day Is My Enemy to the point of suffocation.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 70 out of 98
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Mixed: 17 out of 98
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Negative: 11 out of 98
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