The Prodigy: 'Warrior's Dance'

When they released the mind-numbingly awful 'Baby's Got A Temper' in 2002, it looked like it was all over for The Prodigy. Five years after the chart-topping Fat Of The Land, it seemed they'd run out not just of ideas, but also of any sense of dignity or self-awareness. Some ground was made up with 2004's guest-heavy (but Flint and Maxim-less) Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, but it was only on 'Omen', the lead single from current album Invaders Must Die, that the group gave their first hint at a true return to form.

Follow-up 'Warrior's Dance' picks up that baton and twirls it into a glowstick with an appealingly heavy base. An instant rave classic - if you'll excuse the contradiction in terms - this feels as urgent now as it would had it featured on the band's early '90s LPs. Some may complain that it's a shameless bit of nostalgia from a group that should be looking to the future, but when the high-pitched sample squalls, "Come with me to the dancefloor, you and me 'cause that's what it's for", it feels rather churlish to resist.


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