The Day Is My Enemy
Described by principal producer Liam Howlett as “an attack,” The Prodigy’s sixth studio album is a blast of gritty, two-fisted aggression from the pioneering electronic outfit. The opening title cut, “The Day Is My Enemy,” combines 10-ton synths with sternum-rattling breakbeats, while the appropriately titled “Nasty” is a dizzying rush of devilish melody and radioactive production. Elsewhere, the closer, “Wall of Death,” finds frontman Keith Flint spitting familiar streams of venom over the unrelenting crunch of piston-like guitars and spooky atmospherics.
The Day Is My Enemy is the sixth studio album by English electronic music group the Prodigy. Recorded across a timespan of six years, the album marks the first time that band members Maxim and Keith Flint have been actively involved in the songwriting process. The album title is a reference to the Cole Porter song "All Through the Night", in particular its lyrics "the day is my enemy, the night my friend", although it is the Ella Fitzgerald version that first inspired the title track
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