And it should appeal to both new fans and old, with the old school vocal samples and modern production values colliding to create a cacophony of energetic sound. Starting your new album with your most energetic and innovative track is an audacious move - it’s undoubtedly the best track on the whole album - but here, it absolutely pays off. The Day Is My Enemy is a bombastic march, a call to arms, with a sensational beat and screaming synths. TDIME’s first track - also the album’s title track - is Howlett and co. It’s clear right from the off that with this new record, The Prodigy mean business. In short, ‘violent’ is definitely the right word. It’s a lot heavier, far more intense, and is jam-packed with an infectious, raw energy that IMD lost somewhat in an effort to appeal to a wider audience.

The Day Is My Enemy: do not expect to find radio-friendly singles here. The first thing you notice whilst listening to The Prodigy’s latest album, is that it is the antithesis to IMD in almost every way, something that even the album’s title seems to acknowledge. But with The Day Is My Enemy, the boys might, just might, have pulled it off. Pleasing both sets of fans, then, was never going to be an easy feat. There are also the ‘new’ fans, who perhaps didn’t even exist back then, and only became aware of The Prodigy with the aforementioned Invaders Must Die - they’re more than happy with the bombastic tracks that have become the norm from The Prodigy. There are the ‘original’ fans, who have been there from day one, though the 90s’ rave culture - they long for the skittish beats of old. The Prodigy, perhaps more so than any other band I know of, have a massively divided fanbase. Understandably, then, there’s a lot of expectation for their latest effort, The Day Is My Enemy, to deliver in a big way. soft, and that they'd sold out for radio. Invaders Must Die, their previous album, didn’t sit well with a lot of hardcore fans who felt that the band had gone a bit. That’s the word that Liam Howlett, Prodigy head-honcho, has used repeatedly to describe his band’s new album in the run up to its release.

Flat top is my enemy song