EP
What Evil Lurks
1991
| 01. | 4:26 | The Day Is My Enemy |
| 02. | 4:03 | Nasty |
| 03. | 3:52 | Rebel Radio |
| 04. | 2:46 | Ibiza |
| 05. | 4:29 | Destroy |
| 06. | 4:28 | Wild Frontier |
| 07. | 3:51 | Rok-Weiler |
| 08. | 3:09 | Beyond The Deathray |
| 09. | 4:12 | Rhythm Bomb |
| 10. | 5:01 | Roadblox |
| 11. | 3:39 | Get Your Fight On |
| 12. | 3:56 | Medicine |
| 13. | 4:16 | Invisible Sun |
| 14. | 4:04 | Wall Of Death |
Limited Edition Deluxe 3LP Vinyl Box
Full colour rigid 12x12 card box with lift off lid to include the following exclusive items:
3 x 180gram 12’s cut at 45 rpm.
Individual Red, yellow and black vinyl LPs in printed inner sleeves
3D Lenticular 12 x 12 sized print of the album cover
36” x 24” full colour double sided poster (folded)
12x12 credit sheet
Includes an instant download of the track 'Nasty' upon pre-order.
Download card for Lossless files
The Day Is My Enemy is the sixth studio album by The Prodigy. It was released in 30 March 2015 by record labels Take Me to the Hospital/Cooking Vinyl in the UK and Three Six Zero Music/Warner Bros. Records in the United States. 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. Liam Howlett has stated in some interviews that this will be the band's final studio album as they're switching focus to releasing EPs from now on. We'll see if that's true since Liam has stated this after 2 last albums and still released new ones.
The first known existence of new material from The Prodigy came in 2011 when the band debuted new tracks at their live performances. The first two of these tracks were "A.W.O.L." and "Dogbite", with 2012 yielding a new track called "Jetfighter". Liam Howlett had reaffirmed that the new album would be "darker" in contrast to their previous releases. On 3 May 2012, the tentative album title was revealed as How to Steal a Jetfighter. On 2 July 2014, The Prodigy announced that the album was to be re-introduced with a brand new name.
The second working title of the album was Rebel Radio until it underwent another change. Howlett explained that this was because he had a hard time imagining it working as an album title, and instead settled on making that the title of one of the album tracks.
The album was written and recorded largely while on tour, in various hotel rooms around the world, on flights and at The Prodigy's private studio at Tileyard Studios. Howlett found that "violent is the word that keeps on coming up" when describing the album. The entire recording process took almost six years taking in a number of studios and a few restarts to establish that "angry, energetic sound". Unlike previous efforts The Day Is My Enemy became a band-album where Flint and Maxim worked in tandem with Howlett. This created a degree of friction although Flint noted that "four years ago we sat down and talked about where the next album was gonna go, and we knew we had to bust out the most ‘band’ album we could create".
The original tracklist
When this album was originally announced, a different tracklisting leaked off from the official site. After that the track order was changed and Rise Of The Eagles was dropped from the original release. Later it was released as a bonus track.
01 Beyond The Deathray
02 Destroy
03 Wild Frontier
04 Rebel Radio
05 Medicine
06 Nasty Nasty
07 Wall Of Death
08 I Need A Rhythm
09 Get UR Fight On
10 Rock-Weiler
11 Road Blocks
12 Rise Of The Eagles
13 Ibiza....Blaaaaa
Reviews
“The most exciting - and most angrily British - album of the year” – Kerrang! KKKKK (Classic)
"the strongest and most confident Prodigy album since 'The Fat Of The Land'” - NME 8/10
"They've done it again, and you can't help but love them for it" - Album Of The Month – Mixmag 8/10
“Bigger, better and crazier with every track” – Zoo 4/5
“Snarling electronic bass and beats” – Uncut 7/10
Related articles
- Golden Plec - 23rd November 2015 The Prodigy - Interview
- Mondo Sonoro - 1st July 2015 En modo ataque
- Universal Audio - 22nd June 2015 Producer Neil McLellan mixes The Prodigy with UAD plug-ins
- NME - 5th May 2015 The Prodigy Interview: On Anger, The Election And Why Electronic Music's "Not Good Enough Anymore"
- Spin Magazine - 27th April 2015 Q&A: The Prodigy Look Back on the Most Aggressive Career in Electronic History
- The Yorkshire Post - 24th April 2015 Music interview: The Prodigy bide their time to create latest album
- Entertainment Weekly - 6th April 2015 The Prodigy's Liam Howlett on the state of EDM: 'Everything seems to have gone a bit soft'
- DJ Mag - 1st April 2015 The Prodigy: The prodigal sons
- The Music - 18th February 2015 Night crawlers
- London Evening Standard - 4th December 2014 Dance DJs? The Prodigy’s sixth album will wipe the floor with them, says Liam Howlett
- Billboard - 19th August 2014 Exclusive: The Prodigy Signs With Warner Bros. Imprint Three Six Zero Music in the U.S.
See also
EP
Single
Charly
1991
Single
Everybody In The Place
1991
Single
Fire
1992
Album
Experience
1992
Single
Out of Space
1992
Single
WInd It Up
1993
Single
One Love
1993
Single
No Good (Start The Dance)
1994
Album
Music For The Jilted Generation
1994
Single
Voodoo People
1994
Single
Poison
1995
Single
Firestarter
1996
Single
Breathe
1996
Album
The Fat Of The Land
1997
Single
Smack My Bitch Up
1997
Compilation
Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One
1999
Compilation
The Prodigy Experience - Expanded: Remixes & B-sides
2001
EP
Baby's Got A Temper
2002
Album
Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
2004
Single
Girls
2004
Single
Hotride
2004
Single
Spitfire
2005
Compilation
Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005
2005
Single
Voodoo People / Out Of Space
2005
Compilation
Back To Mine
2006
Compilation
More Music For The Jilted Generation
2008
Album
Invaders Must Die
2009
Single
Omen
2009
Single
Warrior's Dance
2009
Single
Take Me To The Hospital
2009
EP
Invaders Must Die EP
2009
EP
The Added Fat EP
2012
Single
Nasty
2015
Single
Wild Frontier
2015
Single
Ibiza
2015
EP
The Night Is My Friend EP
2015
Album
The Day Is My Enemy (Expanded Edition)
2015
Single
Need Some1
2018
Album
No Tourists
2018
Single
Light Up The Sky
2018
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