The Prodigy's image circa Fat of the Land was eye-rollingly "intense" in a distinctly 90's way - its tough to separate it from the music. And the music's pretty uncool on its own: the little vocal snippets, the rave-ready beats, the hip hop scratches - it's all wildly dated by now.
But if you can get past it: some of those squonky acid loops are pretty hooky, and who doesn't love a breakbeat? [Aside: I feel like there was an awful lot of meat on the breakbeat bone when we gave up on it] And why shouldn't you throw every buzzy, squiggling, noisy thing you can find into the mix? Pure kitchen-sink maximalism: Justice/Vitalic/DaftPunk meets GirlTalk/JasonForrest/Avalances. It's a good little rush if you can give yourself over to it 3.5/5
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