no matter, the dogs are unleashed

Dear Master L,

I hope you see all this.
Sorry that for a bit, I had low expectations that you could make so great music again. Im just sorry...

You see all this? You gave us a record with 15 tracks. And ALL YOUR FANS like if not all of them, at least 10-12 of them. Not 3-4 of them like your previous 2 records. No... its not hype. I remember the AONO leak, and the IMD leak. Its not the same for sure.

BUT... here is the trick. WE DONT LIKE THE SAME TRACKS. All of us have OUR OWN top10 list. Everyone have their banger tracks. That just mean what a BRILLIANT work you have done. You have everyone happy.

And me personally... got many goosebumps... and sometimes tears of happiness (troll me I dont mind, its true).

No words to describe.... just THANK YOU Master L.

ps. prepare to give your new music in plenty of movies, shows, big brand commercials.

Imagine, here are The Prodigy with a new album coming...

And with less than a week to go for some countries, there is no leak out there.

That's a fucking triumph right there... an album NOT leaking.

They should have been ecstatic about that.

But then, here comes iTunes... an official digital store... to come fuck up their whole album build up and release.

Now the album is all over the internet because of what iTunes did... all that work keeping it off the internet flushed straight down the drain.

On top of iTunes MAKING money off people buy this single track version.

So not only did iTunes fuck up their entire release and hard work surrounding it, but iTunes made money off it as well.

Really fucking blows for the boys right now.

Even though I bought this single track release and the album multiple times already, I still feel a little bad for the guys right now if this wasn't their intention to have the album out there like this.

Come on... the entire release is not destroyed because of this. And i doubt Apple is to blame, thats pure speculation. Apple have a web interface for their digital stores where sellers job is to configure everything from pricing to release date and availability / there is not an apple employee going through every release manually, imagine what that would cost. Of course there can be exceptions if you are an important person, but still i think they covered their asses in TOS agreements.

Anyhow, i think this album is a step up from IMD. Maybe not a huge step, but its definitely better.

Maybe someone thought "let's rip off dem preorderers" and put that single track thing out for a while.

A lot went wrong with this release. Amazon, iTunes, it's like the distribution sites were eager to get that shit out there real quick.

Is Ibiza a censored version then on itunes? I would not buy anything like that. When it's going to be again available will it be the same version?

Exactly...

It's surefire way for a digital site to make some money.
To be the first to have something for sale (even if it's not suppose to be officially).
This works more in the digital store's favor than the band.
Something that people are waiting for and they know hardcore fans will try to get as soon as possible.
It's a sales tactic if you think about it.

I would not buy the itunes version if this did not happen. I have the preorders.

They just woke me up in the morning and took my money while I was still in bed.
Well I gave it to them but still...

Really weird like they intentionally did it?....meh...im buying 2 physical copies as always since the early 90s and im putting one up to the self with the others.

Well, before we start blaming Tim Cook for the Kennedy assassinations and 911... If they viciously wanted to piss off a whole record label, why did they do it with a stupid single track version and not the "real" listing? I doubt that there are THAT many prodigy fans for this to make any difference what so ever in Apples accounting, plus Apple still delivers 80% straight to the seller. Without any sort of proof, this is just far out speculations you guys.

Have not heard the whole thing yet (I am currently on Roadblox), but I am quite confident and happy to say that it's the album I have been waiting for since '97. And Liam, thank you for "Beyond the Deathray", dear!

it is speculation, but why all of a sudden would they remove it?
i don't think it was meant to be for sale and downloadable...
i think it was meant to be a stream only kinda thing to go with all of the listening parties and playbacks on the radios.

i've never seen something released this way before.

HOLY FUKIN SHIT REBEL RADIO KILLS IT! ! ! ! ! !

what a fukin banger, this shit murders everything

this is it ! ! ! new firestarter right there, BOOM

losing my mind here

I didn't buy it on iTunes in fear of supporting some other cunt who's freeloading the album but I have been listening to it all day.

It's pretty fucking good, innit?

I want my two pre-orders to arrive NOW!

Maybe it was supposed to be released digitally today, right after the Radio 1 play? And if not, maybe that's what's gonna happen, siince its already out there. Anyway, I feel like I'm gonna skip this itunes version considering its quality and censorship.