Those of you who have heard the new prodigy album will know exactly what I meant when they read that title. The album can only be described as disastrous, and I don’t really know how the band have got to this point.
I spend a lot of my time watching interviews with the bands and artists that I like to listen to, and watched a lot of the Prodigy talking about the new album, saying that they have tried to stick the middle finger up to whats going on with dance music at the moment, and the song “Ibiza” is the pinnacle of that. Yet for some reason it seems that in The Prodigy’s attempt to distance themselves with the world of EDM they have cornered themselves in this dark, ‘all the same sounding’ area. To describe the song ‘Ibiza’ it would be that standard prodigy beat that you would expect, with Keith going “Ibiza, Ibiza, whats he fucking doing, ibiza whats he fucking doing” over the top.
All of this does make me sound like I’m not a prodigy fan which is so far from the truth. That standard prodigy beat that we all know, can and has been shown to create some amazing tunes when mixed with other things. Their previous album was really good and their recent live shows have been amazing. So it really is a shame that they have come out with this. (On a side note it really is cool what the band did when then projecting the album cover all over London finishing with projecting it on the side oh houses of parliment, if you havnt watched it, go check it out)
Hopefully the band will bounce back in the next album cycle. If not they we all have to live with the memory of what they used to be, just think of ‘breath’.
Sean Rotherham
Dance Revolution 