the Prodigy

[Lx_Nen]

Am I the only one getting the feeling that the same people who complained about their last album not sounding like the prodigy are the same people complaining that this one does?

Anyway, on first listen as someone who's not been a huge prodigy fan in the past (I did buy FotL, but I just put that down to peer pressure) I agree with the 'good but not great' opinion. I get the 'sounds a lot like pendulum' comment, but I'm not put off by it, since pendulum are making a shit job of sounding like pendulum these days. I can't take some bits of this album seriously though - I threw away a track I was working on because it relied on a cheesy sample from 'James Brown is dead', but Liam uses the same sample on at least 2 tracks, and as for the wonky rave piano (1:42 into 'World's on Fire') that one was drained of all credibility with it's sarcastic use by Sheep on Drugs in "Track X" back in '92. I'm not that put off by the Fat Boy Slim clone track, probably because I like the odd bit in the middle that sounds like pre-fame Numan. Ho Hum.