![]() ![]() “To us, ‘No Tourists’ is ultimately about escapism and the want and need to be derailed. It’s that sense of do-or-die commitment that is reflected in the album title. And until we feel like we can’t do it, or the buzz goes, we won’t stop.” This is what I do it for: the live thing. I couldn’t write this music unless it has that outlet on stage. “That’s the one thing that brings everything together. ![]() This summer, true to form, The Prodigy can be found out and about across the globe, hitting festivals week in and week out, with album tour dates to follow towards the end of the year. He explains that, as ever, the new songs “are built to play live”. Expanding on the general shape of the project, Liam says: “this album is equally aggressive as the last records – but in a different way.”Ī musician, songwriter and studio maestro, Howlett is as rigorous and righteously Up For It as he was when he formed his 28-years-young band. With production completed, the band have broken cover from the studio to shed further light on ‘No Tourists’. When asked what the new album sounds like, my response is: Evil Rave. “We have the freedom to drop a tune like this alongside tracks led by Keef and Maxim, and still represent what we are about in the same way.” Referring to the Holloway sample, Liam adds that “there’s always one element in our tunes that looks back to where we came from. “Need Some1 demonstrates the thing about our band that I love: it’s multi-sided,” says Howlett. Yes, there are one or two collaborators, but fundamentally this is the sound of the central Prodigy three, bringing their riotous sound to audiences old and new, two decades since they changed the face and sound of electronic music with epochal album ‘The Fat Of The Land’.įor a band who’ve sold 30 million records and won multiple honours (two Brits, two Kerrang! awards, five MTV awards, two Grammy nominations), this is next-chapter and next-level Prodigy. Maxim and Flint are very much present and correct, each supplying their legendary vocal skills on this, the Essex machine’s seventh studio record. ![]() Though this is – Liam notes – “very much a band album”. “Need Some1’is the perfect opening salvo from The Prodigy’s newly-announced album ‘No Tourists’, which has been written, produced and mixed over the last year by main man Howlett in his studio in London’s Kings Cross. The finished video has such violent edge and style and looks like nothing else we have seen – to us it’s only worth doing a video if you can make something original and exciting, which this is.” The Prodigy No Tourists “After being sent loads of pedestrian video director showreels,” says Liam, “Paco’s style stood out and punched me in the face: just so raw and original-looking, I knew he was the man for us. ![]()
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