Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is the fourth studio album by English electronic music group the Prodigy.

Keith Flint and Maxim Reality do not provide any contribution to the official record, which leaves Liam Howlett as the sole band member to do so for the only time in the group's history.

As a result, XL and Maverick dropped the group after the release of the compilation album Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005.

In 1996, the Prodigy rose to fame outside their native UK with "Firestarter", the lead single from The Fat of the Land, which was released in 1997 and topped several charts, including the Billboard 200.

Generating controversy upon release for the lyrics by Keith Flint, which heavily focused on the misuse of the drug rohypnol, the song was met with mostly negative reviews from critics.

Unlike their predecessors, which featured contributions from the entire band, with Keith Flint only appearing on the group's third album at the time, Liam Howlett recorded the album mostly by himself in similar vein to Experience (1992), using the Propellerhead Reason program installed on his Macintosh laptop.

[9]Howlett purchased and brought a laptop, a copy of the Reason program and selected a "Thermionic Culture Phoenix valve compressor and Culture Vulture distortion unit, a Korg Micro Keyboard, a Manley Laboratories valve EQ and a 1970s Korg MS20 analogue keyboard".

Actress Juliette Lewis, Oasis frontmen Liam and Noel Gallagher, Kool Keith of the Ultramagnetic MCs, who was previously featured on "Diesel Power" from The Fat of the Land, American rapper Twista, Shahin Badar, American hip hop musician Princess Superstar and the Magnificent Ping Pong Bitches were guest musicians on the album.

He also noted that his intention was to use vocals mostly as an extension of the sound rather than the main focal point, as was the case on The Fat of the Land.

When the beats and bass enter, its structure changes from that of an industrial hip hop song to excessive distortion and noise.

"Action Radar"'s beat was influenced by early hip hop music, but Howlett does not mention this, even in the booklet.

"You'll Be Under My Wheels" would be later used for the soundtrack of the 2005 racing video game Need for Speed: Most Wanted and the film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

"Memphis Bells", released on 28 June 2004, was exclusively available online as a digital download via a website promoting the album, in a limited edition of 5,000 copies.

A limited edition of 5,000 copies of the album was released, sporting a black, inverted cover variant and no other extras.

[26] In contrast, Pitchfork, as well as Rolling Stone, Q, The Guardian, AllMusic and several other publications were more critical, stating that the album sounded like an underdeveloped recording.

[citation needed] In February 2012, French electronic duo Justice included it in the NME list of "100 Great Albums You've Never Heard".