Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy

Invaders Must Die, the Prodigy's fifth studio album, arrived in February 2009 on the band's own brand-new label, Take Me to the Hospital, with Cooking Vinyl handling distribution. Liam Howlett produced it, but this time he wasn't the lone mad scientist in the lab: with Leeroy Thornhill long gone, it was the first Prodigy record where every member, Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim, had a hand in shaping it. Maybe that's why it sounds like a gang again, all siren synths, stomping breakbeats and hollered hooks, the big beat machine revved back up to rave-era redline.

It's also the first of their albums with nothing explicit on it, which only proves how much of the menace lives in the noise. The title track, "Omen", "Warrior's Dance" and "Take Me to the Hospital" went out as singles. Critics were split, but buyers weren't: it did better business than Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.

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