Citing the creative process behind the LP, The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett elucidated that “tracks that we like playing live from ‘Invaders Must Die’ like Omen and Take Me To The Hospital are the template for what we want to do for this record.” Indeed, ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ feels more like a collection of songs – some cracking, some forgettable than something with substance.

Its Gesaffelsteinesque, titular opener chugs along mellifluously with juggernaut tribal drums, whirling bleeps and a sample from Tricky collaborator Martina Topley-Bird, which harks back to earlier classics (No Good, Warriors’ Dance et al). All of which coalesces to produce the perfect nightlife flag-bearing alternative to the type of recycled drawl referred to on diatribe and potential future-single, Ibiza, three tracks later which makes you wonder why pub prophets, Sleaford Mods don’t join forces with the ravers more often.

Nasty, meanwhile, is your typical high-octane debauchery inducing, call and response corker bound to send festival-goers lucky enough to catch the three-piece this summer into a frenzy. Elsewhere there are your Middle Eastern instrumentals (Rebel Radio, Medicine) and Pendulum influences (Wild Frontier).

Halfway through the album, however, you can’t help but feel that Howlett and co. are drawing too much out of the unadorned drum and bass genre. Nevertheless, ‘The Day Is My End’ revives itself, namely on tiring late-set anthems, Medicine and Invisible Sun and album-closer, the mortality and materialism-protesting rally-cry Wall Of Death, which is laden with QOTSA-style riffs.

Yes, ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ is riddled with the type of banal and redundant lyricism of a nu-metal outfit. But in today’s uncertain economic times, sometimes all you want to do is lose yourself amongst the angst and infectious pandemonium of the Essex legends’ unique offerings. There is certainly no questioning The Prodigy’s unceasing intelligence. One thing’s for sure; the world has been a lot quieter without them. Long may they continue to consume us.