The Day Is My Enemy
The sixth album, the first on which Maxim and Flint took an active part in the writing.
The Prodigy, 2015
- Released
- 30 March 2015
- Studio
- Tileyard Studios, London
- Label
- Take Me to the Hospital and Cooking Vinyl
- Producer
- Liam Howlett, Flux Pavilion, Neil McLellan, KillSonik and Zak H Laycock
- Length
- 56:12
Howlett wrote and recorded much of the album on tour, in hotel rooms and on flights, as well as in the band's studio at Tileyard in London, and it was mixed at SARM. The title refers to Cole Porter's All Through the Night, which has the line about the day being an enemy and the night a friend, though it was Ella Fitzgerald's version that first inspired the title track. The track was the last to be produced and grew from a guitar riff by Olly Burden. Martina Topley-Bird sings on it, and the Swiss drum corps Top Secret Drum Corps plays live drums. Howlett told Spin he had recorded her vocal about four years earlier on another track and kept it for the right moment.
Ibiza, with Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods, is aimed at superstar DJ culture. Howlett said violent was the word that kept coming up for the album. NME called it the strongest and most confident Prodigy album since The Fat of the Land, and Kerrang! gave it its highest rating. It entered the UK chart at number 1.
Track listing
- The Day Is My Enemy4:24
- Nasty4:03
- Rebel Radio3:52
- Ibiza2:45
- Destroy4:28
- Wild Frontier4:28
- Rok-Weiler3:50
- Beyond the Deathray3:08
- Rhythm Bomb4:12
- Roadblox5:00
- Get Your Fight On3:38
- Medicine3:56
- Invisible Sun4:16
- Wall of Death4:04
Personnel
- Liam Howlett production, writing, keyboards, synthesizers, sampling, programming, engineering, mixing
- Keith Flint vocals on Nasty, Rebel Radio, Ibiza, Rok-Weiler, Get Your Fight On, Invisible Sun and Wall of Death
- Maxim vocals on The Day Is My Enemy, Nasty, Rebel Radio, Wild Frontier, Roadblox, Get Your Fight On, Medicine and Wall of Death
- Neil McLellan co-production, engineering, mixing
- Martina Topley-Bird vocals on The Day Is My Enemy
- Top Secret Drum Corps live drums on The Day Is My Enemy
- Jason Williamson vocals on Ibiza
More from The Prodigy
Experience (1992), Music for the Jilted Generation (1994), The Fat of the Land (1997), Invaders Must Die (2009)
Sources
- The Day Is My Enemy, Wikipedia
- The Prodigy: The sound and the fury, Electronic Sound
- Q&A: The Prodigy look back on the most aggressive career in electronic history, Spin (2015-04)