| “The
Prodigy’s fifth studio album sounds just like The Prodigy should.
Only leaner, harder, and even faster than before.” Q
****, April 2009 “It’s hard to imagine many better records being release this year.” London Lite, 5/5, 16th February 2009 “Nobody does The Prodigy like The Prodigy, and it’s a joy to have them back on all cylinders.” – Clash – 8/10, March 2009 |
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"Take
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Having
smashed it with their intensity and energy recently at Irish festivals
LIVE AT THE MARQUEE (Cork), LIVE IN THE
PARK (Co. Down), and SLANE CASTLE (with OASIS)
and virtually every major festival over in the UK this year including
headline performances at Glastonbury, Isle
of Wight and Download to name a few, The
Prodigy release the third single Take Me To The
Hospital in Ireland on August 28th. Still riding high in
the European charts, their album ‘Invaders Must Die’
is among the top five selling albums of 2009 and has reaffirmed
the band’s status as true legends of both dance and rock. |
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| “The
Prodigy’s fifth studio album sounds just like The Prodigy should.
Only leaner, harder, and even faster than before.” Q
****, April 2009 “It’s hard to imagine many better records being release this year.” London Lite, 5/5, 16th February 2009 |
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THE
PRODIGY "Warriors Dance" |
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Upcoming Irish Dates ::: Back at the
top of their game with the release of their 5th album ‘Invaders
Must Die’ (which went straight in at No. 1 and is
already one of the best selling album this year), The Prodigy
get ready to release the all out monster ‘Warriors
Dance’. |
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THE
PRODIGY "Invaders Must
Die" |
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Upcoming Irish Dates ::: The
Prodigy’s fifth studio album ‘Invaders
Must Die’ has entered the Billboard European
Top 100 Album Chart at #1. The chart is
compiled from sales charts in 20 European countries. "Invaders Must Die’ is released on the bands own imprint ‘Take Me To The Hospital’ via Cooking Vinyl. This marks a double success for the CV group as the first UK #1 for the label and for the sales division Essential Music. Says MD Martin Goldschmidt: “After 23 years we have paid our dues - I am totally stoked!” |
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ALBUM "Invaders Must
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Upcoming Irish Dates ::: >>>
For Information / Interview requests / Promotional Copies contact Berube Communications:
Stevo Berube on info@berubecommunications.com or phone 0872442695 <<< The Prodigy return with the release of their fifth studio album and a free download. ‘Invaders Must Die’ is 40 minutes of having your head battered by future nostalgia, serotonin levels twisted by feel-good horrorcore and your synapses snapped by whiplash attitude. It's the sound of The Prodigy mixing up genres, contorting the past and rewiring the future, ram-raiding through the tranquility of music's status quo like a blot on the landscape of England's dreaming. The first thing you notice about Invaders Must Die it is how complete it sounds, a consistent collection of bangers all firing from the same cannon. The next thing you notice about Invaders Must Die is just how melodic it is. Not just melody in the vocal sense but in the heyday-of-hardcore keyboard-hookline sense. Yes, if The Prodigy have learned anything from the hugely successful live shows was that those old skool rave anthems still rock hard - and are every bit as iconic to their generation as punk was to the nation's forty-somethings. So Invaders Must Die is awash with references to the free party generation, thundering along like the mother of all E-rushes, all hairs tingling, spine jumping and lips buzzing. But not a retroactive arms-in-the-air, water-sharing nostalgia trip, but a set fuelled by punk's saliva-dripping rabid snarl. Take 'Colours', the first tune The Prodigy recorded for this set with it's 1992 polysynth riffing that sounds like The Stranglers' 'No More Heroes' parachuted into the middle of a Castlemorton circa 1992. Or 'Thunder', the 21st century bastard child of the classic 'Out of Space'. ‘Take Me To The Hospital' finds Keith and Maxim flexing over a vintage Prodigy riff. Suitably rusted, distorted and in need of urgent medication it bites like the soundtrack to Dante's Inferno. While the live favourite 'World’s On Fire' resurrects a 'flaming' theme and applies it to a groove straight out second album 'Music for the Jilted Generation. 'Omen' and ‘Warrior’s Dance’ are both beamed straight into the moshpit from rave central, while 'Piranha' rips the threads from the back of 60's garage and beats it into the filthy gutters of modern urban life. Any old skool bonhomie floating around the riffs of this album are quickly slaughtered by 'Run With The Wolves' where The Prodigy's self-assured, gang-minded campaign turns into a maniacal, nose bleeding, heads-against-the-wall warzone. With added drum-pounding energy supplied by Dave Grohl. And finally Invaders Must Die delivers its last brilliant twist with ‘Stand Up’ a horn-led sunrise anthem that aches with the positivity of a new dawn, walking the line of a burning horizon with the swaggering look of satisfaction that only comes when you instinctively know you've achieved what you set out to do. Cocky? Perhaps, but wouldn't you be if you'd seen off all of the invaders with your most complete album yet, the first for your own record label? Invaders Must Die is the unique sound of The Prodigy, still breaking and entering where other's can only dream of following. ALBUM TRACKLISTING: 01.
Invaders Must Die |
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THE
PRODIGY "Invaders Must Die" Irish Release Date: 27/2/09 Label: Take Me To The Hospital www.theprodigy.com |
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ALBUM & FREE DOWNLOAD
The Prodigy will be giving away a free download of the brilliant title track ‘Invaders Must Die’ available from the band’s website www.theprodigy.com on Wednesday November 26th from 7.30pm for one week only. |
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LIVE ::: SLANE CASTLE - Supporting OASIS June 20th, 2009 ~ Slane, Co. Meath ~ Info on www.mcd.ie |
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The Prodigy return with the release of their fifth studio album and a free download. ‘Invaders Must Die’ is 40 minutes of having your head battered by future nostalgia, serotonin levels twisted by feel-good horrorcore and your synapses snapped by whiplash attitude. It's the sound of The Prodigy mixing up genres, contorting the past and rewiring the future, ram-raiding through the tranquility of music's status quo like a blot on the landscape of England's dreaming. The first thing you notice about Invaders Must Die it is how complete it sounds, a consistent collection of bangers all firing from the same cannon. The next thing you notice about Invaders Must Die is just how melodic it is. Not just melody in the vocal sense but in the heyday-of-hardcore keyboard-hookline sense. Yes, if The Prodigy have learned anything from the hugely successful live shows was that those old skool rave anthems still rock hard - and are every bit as iconic to their generation as punk was to the nation's forty-somethings. So Invaders Must Die is awash with references to the free party generation, thundering along like the mother of all E-rushes, all hairs tingling, spine jumping and lips buzzing. But not a retroactive arms-in-the-air, water-sharing nostalgia trip, but a set fuelled by punk's saliva-dripping rabid snarl. Take 'Colours', the first tune The Prodigy recorded for this set with it's 1992 polysynth riffing that sounds like The Stranglers' 'No More Heroes' parachuted into the middle of a Castlemorton circa 1992. Or 'Thunder', the 21st century bastard child of the classic 'Out of Space'. ‘Take Me To The Hospital' finds Keith and Maxim flexing over a vintage Prodigy riff. Suitably rusted, distorted and in need of urgent medication it bites like the soundtrack to Dante's Inferno. While the live favourite 'World’s On Fire' resurrects a 'flaming' theme and applies it to a groove straight out second album 'Music for the Jilted Generation. 'Omen' and ‘Warrior’s Dance’ are both beamed straight into the moshpit from rave central, while 'Piranha' rips the threads from the back of 60's garage and beats it into the filthy gutters of modern urban life. Any old skool bonhomie floating around the riffs of this album are quickly slaughtered by 'Run With The Wolves' where The Prodigy's self-assured, gang-minded campaign turns into a maniacal, nose bleeding, heads-against-the-wall warzone. With added drum-pounding energy supplied by Dave Grohl. And finally Invaders Must Die delivers its last brilliant twist with ‘Stand Up’ a horn-led sunrise anthem that aches with the positivity of a new dawn, walking the line of a burning horizon with the swaggering look of satisfaction that only comes when you instinctively know you've achieved what you set out to do. Cocky? Perhaps, but wouldn't you be if you'd seen off all of the invaders with your most complete album yet, the first for your own record label? Invaders Must Die is the unique sound of The Prodigy, still trespassing after all these years, walking the path they've created for themselves. And with that free party attitude still breaking and entering where other's can only dream of following.
FREE DOWNLOAD: The Prodigy will be giving away a free download of the brilliant title track ‘Invaders Must Die’ available from the band’s website www.theprodigy.com on Wednesday November 26th from 7.30pm for one week only. There will also be a High Definition video download of 'Invaders Must Die' available from 12 noon on Nov 28th as part of the Xbox 'Xtival campaign'. Featuring the screenwriter and star of Kidulthood and Adulthood, Noel Clarke, this will be available for free until Dec 5th on the Xtival channel on Xbox Live. To find out more go to www.xbox.com/en-GB/xtival08/ The video will also be streamed from www.theprodigy.com ALBUM TRACKLISTING:
1. Invaders Must Die
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LIVE ::: SLANE CASTLE - Supporting OASIS The Prodigy announce
their fifth studio album Invaders Must Die to be
released on the band’s imprint Take Me To The Hospital
through Cooking Vinyl in Ireland on Feb
27th 2009.
* CD album The band will
embark on a sold out warm up academy tour of the UK (tour sold out
in an hour) taking in two Brixton Academy dates on 12th & 13th
December. 5th
– Cardiff International Arena – 029 2022 4488 Tickets
on sale 9.30am Fri 7th Nov.
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PRODIGY are back with their own new label, and this time
they’re doing it their way. Always fiercely independent, the
band have decided to set up their new label Ragged Flag,
which will be the platform for their next album release and will subsequently
act as an outlet for new talent that they find. Backed by UK Independent label Cooking Vinyl, the deal will allow the band to continue to enjoy total creative control over all aspects of their music and how it is presented. Prodigy founder member Liam
Howlett commented : ‘”We have been planning
this for a while and we are looking forward to building our label
up, starting off with the release of the new Prodigy album. We have
recorded a few songs already for this next album and they are sounding
big and mean!” |
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