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Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land

Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, 7 August 1997

RARELY HAS a pop trend been so shamelessly spoon-fed to America as the hold-all genre dubbed "electronica". Rarely, indeed, has the music industry tried so hard to convince us that the Next Big Thing is in fact a done deal - that another wave of English boys holds the future in its hands and we’d better get used to it.

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