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Not going to go through the usual "we have a thread for this" bollocks even though we do have a thread for this and I started it because that's how I fucking roll.
I've had girls (and the album, natch) for fucking aaaageeees now and I've been spending the last few weeks fuming at reviews calling it a "Liam Howlett solo album" (what do you think Experience was, you overpaid bollockheads?) and I really really love the shit out of it.
(Aside, to flyboy) I don't think Liam's really been ripping off influences from more recent bands/acts who do similar stuff: the boy Howlett has been into his old school breaks for years. More likely they were influenced by the same stuff he was. It reminded me a lot of the sort of stuff that ended up on Dirchamber Sessions.
Most of the negative stuff I've read has slagged the album off for sounding a bit like XTMNTR era Primal Scream (it doesn't), which strikes me as an insane thing to say given, you know, XTMNTR owes more than a few doffs of the cap to the Prodge (it also owes me the sum it cost me to buy it in the first place but that's another matter altogether).
In short, the new stuff is stoopid electro with hard hitting beats, which is what I was after from the Prodigy. Very happy he left Keith off this: the Prodigy sound like a different band each album, which can be/is both a strength and a weakness. Juliet Lewis' vocal on Spitfire was a nice counterpoint to Smack My Bitch Up in the sense that it's an ultra-agressive female vocal on a similar track (this time the bitch smacks you up, see?) for those that missed the irony of ending FOTL with a fucking full-blooded L7 cover the first time round.
Not suprised with any of the responses this has been getting. Make of that what you will. |
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