My review of TDIME:
The day is my enemy: The best opener of all Prodigy albums imo. Starting with this wardrums and a general apocalyptic dark feel. The beat kicks in like an army of marching terminators. Dirt Candy adds the perfect snarling, gritty vocal shouts bathing in analogue distortion. This adds the perfect contrast with the eerie female vocals. The square commodore synth and classic prodigy string layer adds this beautiful nostalgic Prodigy vibe creating a bit of hope in this dark tune. 9/10
Nasty: I heard this one first on the Radio One stream and hated it. The lofi audio stream couldn't handle the grittyness of this tune. It is a cliché Prodigy tune with dumb lyrics, a threatening stacatto oriental riff and big beats with explosive danger.
Love the dirty snare with goes very well together with the gunshots in the hunters video clip. The winston churchill interlude is beautiful fist in the air shit. A typical tune for Prodigy haters and hipsters which means I love it
8,5/10
Rebel radio: Reworked version of Heatwave. The vocoded vocal intro is catchy and grabs the attention immediately. Beat kicks in like a mule with tight guitar stabs. I find Maxim and Keefs vocals a bit messy in this tune. Love the rave synth and bubbly pitched synth with the kinda anthem hardcore vocals on top. The buildup at 2'50" is badass but gets ruined with the same synth and beat dropping in. The last minute is a bit too much of a repetition. 7,5/10
A bit of shameless promotion: we still play an edited version of Blacklabels rework of heatwave live with our band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxlR6Hxl8EoIbiza: The instrumental sounds like Piranha meets the Horrors (eerie spooky twisted organ sounds). The Sleaford Mods add a British flag element to this tune. It reminds of Bulrs 'parklife' and The Streets vocal style. A fun tune but far from a classic. 7/10
destroy: Class instrumental tune from Master H. Full of layers, small breaks and beat details. love the kinda disco from hell synthline kickin in at 50" Again a small touch a recycling with the Omen bells. The ending makes me wanna open the moshpit and kick everyone's head in. This tune sounds agressive yet disturbingly creative. 8,5/10
Wild Frontier For me this has the impact of Omen as a single. Most accesible tune of TDIME. Catchy synths and 8 bit melody and a vocal chorus to sing along. Love the dualism of the beautiful parts and the 'danger' part with dub vocal delays and agressive fuzz bassguitar. Class tune 9/10
Rok-Weiler Standout tune of the album for me. Synth intro sounds like the arrival of the Emperor. Break part after it is like Rage against the machine fighting with an army of robots. The upcoming mid bass synthline is sheer genius. Sounds like a very creative use of the arturia microbrute to my ears. The chorus with Keef on vocals is catchy and sounds between beautiful and agressive (like alot of stuff on the album) When the introsynth returns you can clearly hear the detailed modulationskills of Liam. It's a live banger for sure. Only downpart for me is that the guitars should been mixed a bit louder. 9,5/10
Beyond the deathray Beautiful Howlett trademarked trip into space shit. Hands in the air touching the sky druggy feelgood vibe. The part at 1'22" gave me shivers, sound like you finally arrived at the planet you've been travelling to for years.
Rythm bomb Intro beats sound promising. Vocals are catchy and the beat is danceable and thumping. The vocal stuttering has this glitchy ed banger vibe we already heard before. The strange guitar part at "51 makes no sense imo and the synth afterwards kinda ruins the drop for me. The tune keeps going on. Luckily there's this nice saw wave arpeggioline with banging beats otherwise I would have rated this tune really average. 6,5/10
Roadblox Deathray kinda spacy synth intro with nice Maxim shouts on top. Love the transition with this nice little bell notes leading into the fast beats. The spitfast modulated distorted riff is huge. The breakdown at 3'40" builds up nicely to the end verse of the tune. Brilliant atmosphere combined with raw beats, another standout tune for me. 9/10
get your fight on The intro synhtriff sounds liek a psychotic clown hopping around on acid. Wicked guitarpart drops in but then it changes into TMTTH. It's still smashing ofcours (hence the original) Not too keen on Maxim's vocals. The middle building up part sounds quite EDM but more cleverly. The beat dropping after it sounds a bit dull. 7,5/10
medicine Fun track which reminds me alot of early 2000's freestylers stuff with the ragga mc vocals and slow bigbeat. Oldskool shit and nice breakdown with moody bassline and oriental samples. Wicked tune and nice throwback for the 90's generation. 8/10
Invisible sun Beat sounds a bit like the fight club soundtrack from the Dust Brothers. Very deep and moody sound. The guitar is the most outspoken on the album and it adds a bit of a future western vibe to this tune. Can't believe it's Keef on vocals. This should have been the closing tune of the album. i prefer it to stand up as my personal warm blanket. 8/10
Wall of death This tune is a hammer. Very original drumwise. Love the stupid attacking vocals and distorted synth bass. It has this 80's Gary Numan, Ultravox kinda synths in the chorus. This one will go off live. I'll start the wall of death myself at 2'33" if no one does it
8,5/10
Overall it's a hard album to listen to soundwise because of all the distortion and compression. I wish he kept some drumparts more dry. Even alot of the hihats have distortion on them. Can't wait to hear the new album live though!
Ye Rebel Radio would be a 9 for me if it had a different ending. Maybe we'll get that live?