I was rather surprised by the generally unfavourable press for the new album, "Invaders Must Die". While it isn't perfect, and although I imagine I'll only listen to it when the mood takes me, I don't find it nearly as tired or pathetic as many popular reviewers did. Interestingly, much of the criticism seemed to be directed towards the fact that the band are too old to still be making this sort of music. Which is to say I detected that many of the reviewers were vaguely scandalised by the notion that "The Prodigy" are still producing aggressive, heavy bass-inflected dance tracks, despite the fact that they are in their forties. It seems to me that these reviewers are slightly embarrassed by the fact that THEY have matured gracefully into their late thirties and early forties, and that their tastes have changed towards music that is subtler and more complex than that produced by the Prodigy, but that they USED to listen to this in their "youth". Ha ha.
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