The Fat Of The Land 25th Anniversary Edition＜数量限定盤/Metalic Silver Vinyl＞

ザ・プロディジーの世界に衝撃を与えたモンスター・アルバム『The Fat Of The Land』25周年記念限定カラー・ヴァイナル!!

アンダーグラウンドのレイヴ・カルチャーからジャンルの垣根を超えて世界中のオーディエンスを熱狂させたザ・プロディジーのメガ・ヒット・アルバム『The Fat Of The Land』が発売25周年盤を記念してオルタナティヴ・ジャケット仕様の数量限定シルヴァー・ヴァイナルでリリース!!
1997年にリリースされたザ・プロディジーの3枚目のスタジオ・アルバム『The Fat Of The Land』は、ドラムンベースやブレイクビーツ、エレクトロを足場にヘヴィで攻撃的なバンド・サウンドをさらに前景化させ、世界中のアルバム・チャートで1位を獲得し、1千万枚以上のセールスを記録する世界的現象となったバンドの代表的作品。
それまで、ダンサーとしてバンドに参加していた故キース・フリントが初めてメイン・ヴォーカルを務めて大ヒットした「Firestarter」や「Breathe」、「Smack My Bitch Up」などアンセム満載の全10曲を収録。
今回の25周年記念に当たってオルタナティヴ・ジャケット仕様の数量限定シルヴァー・ヴァイナルでリリースされる。

Few albums were as eagerly anticipated as The Fat of the Land, the Prodigy's long-awaited follow-up to Music for the Jilted Generation. By the time of its release, the group had two number one British singles with "Firestarter" and "Breathe" and had begun to make inroads in America. The Fat of the Land was touted as the album that would bring electronica/techno to a worldwide audience (Of course, in Britain, the group already had a staggeringly large following that was breathlessly awaiting the album.) The Fat of the Land falls short of masterpiece status, but that isn't because it doesn't deliver. Instead, it delivers exactly what anyone would expect: intense hip-hop-derived rhythms, imaginatively reconstructed samples, and meaningless shouted lyrics from Keith Flint and Maxim. Half of the album does sound quite similar to "Firestarter," especially when Flint is singing. Granted, Liam Howlett is an inventive producer, and he can make empty songs like "Smack My Bitch Up" and "Serial Thrilla" kick with a visceral power, but he is at his best on the funky hip-hop of "Diesel Power" (which is driven by an excellent Kool Keith rap) and "Funky Shit," as well as the mind-bending neo-psychedelia of "Narayan" (featuring guest vocals by Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker) and the blood-curdling cover of L7's "Fuel My Fire," which features vocals by Republica's Saffron. All those guest vocalists mean something -- Howlett is at his best when he's writing for himself or others, not his group's own vocalists. "Firestarter" and all of its rewrites capture the fire of the Prodigy at their peak, and the remaining songs have imagination that give the album weight. The Fat of the Land doesn't have quite enough depth or variety to qualify as a flat-out masterpiece, but what it does have to offer is damn good. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine