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Amazon.com\n\nMasters of reinvention, rave stalwarts Prodigy have undergone another remarkable facelift for their fourth album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. For band leader Liam Howlett, this mutation was less about ambitious experimentation and more the result of crucial damage control: the band\'s disastrous 2002 comeback campaign, spearheaded by \"Baby\'s Got a Temper\" found the band stagnant and on the verge of self-parody. Howlett\'s response was to scrap the sessions, hunker down with a laptop and hammer out an album that held spontaneity as a virtue. And while the old touchstones--the propulsive breakbeats of old-skool hip-hop, the brooding menace of punk-rock and acid-house--are all here sporting a fresh chrome gleam, they\'re joined by new influences: everything from crunk hip-hop to Aphex Twin\'s \"Windowlicker\" bubbles beneath the surface of \"Girls.\" Maxim and Keith Flint are absent, replaced by a bizarre roll call of stars--Liam Gallagher, Juliette Lewis, Twista--and obscuritiesanyone remember the Ping Pong Bitches? Not that it matters: this is Howlett\'s album, and whether he\'s rewiring Shocking Blue\'s \"Love Buzz\" as Middle Eastern-tinged acid techno on \"Phoenix\" or clashing with Kool Keith on \"Wake Up Call,\" he sounds back on top of his game. --Louis Pattison\n\nProduct Description\n\nThis is an album of raw energy where the beats are the stars, and the voices just samples in Liam\'s sonic armoury. The guests whose vocals have undergone Howlett\'s subverted cut up techniques include Liam Gallagher, Juliette Lewis, Kool Keith, Princess Superstar, Ping Pong Bitches, Twista, Shahin Bada (better known as the spine tingling chanteuse from \'Smack My Bitch Up\') and unknown lo-fi singer songwriter Paul Jackson from Dirt Candy.