“There’s a telling detail buried in the album artwork of ‘No Tourists’, The Prodigy’s seething seventh album, which shows no signs of the Essex ravers mellowing out. It’s in the destination sign of a London bus that lurks in the shadows: “Four Aces, Dalston”. That was the tiny venue in which frenetic rapper Maxim, anarchic punk vocalist Keith Flint and brooding songwriter Liam Howlett played their ”
“On their seventh studio album, the UK rave veterans help themselves liberally to sounds and ideas from their back catalog while punching up the production to ultra-modern standards.”
“When The Prodigy signed with BMG earlier this year and announced what, surprisingly, is only their seventh studio album (they never seem to stop touring), Liam Howlett attempted to elucidate the album’s themes, and its title, by explaining that ‘No Tourists’’ ethos was that “there is always more danger and excitement to be found if you stray from the set path.” Put bluntly, that’s a difficult stat”
