The Day Is My Enemy

The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
Critic Score
Based on 30 reviews
2015 Ratings: #908 / 1021
User Score
Based on 194 ratings
2015 Rank: #605
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
XS Noize

Produced by long time collaborator Neil McClellan The Day Is My Enemy follows on the usual Prodigy traits of hyperactive drum patterns and explosive bass crashes intertwined with electronics reminiscent of that pioneered during the early 90’s rave explosion.

80
NME
Unquestionably, every song has been written to add firepower to the band’s live show, but it’s nonetheless the strongest and most confident Prodigy album since ‘The Fat Of The Land’.
80
DIY
‘The Day Is My Enemy’ is in many ways the quintessential Prodigy album. The uncompromising rave punk spirit that has driven them for over 25 years seems stronger than ever on a record that will delight old fans and capture a whole new era of angry youth.
67
Consequence of Sound

It’s easy to judge their criticisms as a “back in my day” condemnation of a scene they helped create, but their actions show otherwise; The Day Is My Enemy is meant to inspire the next generation of main stage headlining DJ electronic artists.

60
Rolling Stone

The Day Is My Enemy can be obnoxious and same-y after a while — but what good punk isn't?

60
Q Magazine
A few more songs like the kaleidoscopic Beyond The Deathray would've broken the relentless pace but on the whole this is another shape-shifting evolution in a career full of them.
60
AllMusic
At 14 cuts, this chunky effort is built for returning fan club members and not the EP-craving EDM crowd.
60
Pitchfork
So, yes, there are easily as many misses as hits on the album, and 14 tracks is probably about seven tracks too long.
60
FasterLouder

Despite a handful of decent tracks in the second half of the record, it’s difficult not to view The Day Is My Enemy as a poor man’s Invaders Must Die.

50
The Line of Best Fit
We were promised an album of violent thrills, but we just have The Prodigy on auto-pilot here. The day is their enemy? On this showing they should have stayed in bed.
40
musicOMH
For a band that have bemoaned the state of new music and accused it of not “pushing forward” The Prodigy are doing a lot of shoving, but little in the way of solving the problem they’ve identified. If they want to be considered as important as The Sex Pistols, they’ll have to do rather better than this.
25
Pretty Much Amazing
Perhaps it’s a testament to how brilliant they once were that Howlett has spent his last three albums mimicking his earlier output, but we expect better from a man who once set the template for his imitators, reduced here to a boated serpent gorging on its own tail.
20
Exclaim!

The Day is My Enemy is an embarrassing display that inevitably ends badly.

20
Drowned in Sound
There's no craft here, just aimless, ill-spent rage; a broken pinball machine where most of the lights and whirrs awkwardly twitch.
ImpalaLT
52

The Prodigy Re-Review #6

This is very, very inconsistent.

This record continues the sound from Invaders Must Die only to get extremely mixed results. It sounds great, but we can learn from The Car by Arctic Monkeys that music doesn’t need quality to sound good. Sounds oxymoronic, right?

Favorite: Ibiza
Least Favorite: Invisible Sun

Plats
60

"The Day Is My Enemy" has the same amount of energy any Prodigy record would have. Unfortunately, there's no presence of ideas or refinement, which makes it a very bloated listen.

Fav Tracks: Wild Frontier, Rhythm Bomb, The Day Is My Enemy, Beyond The Deathray, Wall Of Death, Ibiza

Least Fav Tracks: Invisible Sun, Destroy

Score:
6
Fine

Gaspurga87
73

Es increible como se diluye el album como un azucarillo a medida que va avanzando.

Vidoben
95

I was drawn to this album purely by its cover (which is awesome, by the way), and since I was already familiar with Prodigy’s earlier works, The Fat of the Land in particular, I figured I’d give this rather underappreciated album a go. And honestly, I think I enjoyed this album more. The Day is My Enemy certainly has a more modern sound, borrowing elements from drum n bass, dubstep, and chiptune; and while that may not be everyone’s cup of tea, I love the variety of sounds on ... read more

Palpatines_Cat
100

Favourite songs: The Day is My Enemy, Nasty, Wild Frontier
Least favourite songs: Roadblox

55

The sixth album by the leaders of the big beat six years after "Invaders Must Die," an poor album.

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Track List

1The Day Is My Enemy
4:24
83
2Nasty
4:03
85
3Rebel Radio
3:52
79
4Ibiza
2:45
64
5Destroy
4:28
76
6Wild Frontier
4:28
86
7Rok-Weiler
3:50
74
8Beyond the Deathray
3:08
67
9Rhythm Bomb
4:12
75
10Roadblox
5:00
75
11Get Your Fight On
3:38
85
12Medicine
3:56
79
13Invisible Sun
4:16
66
14Wall of Death
4:12
70
Total Length: 56 minutes

Year End Lists

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Added on: January 6, 2015