
Worst full length NIN's put out, and it's still great.
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Being an extreme fan of NIN, I picked this up a few days after it came out. And I listened through. I had heard about four songs prior to buying it, and they all seemed pretty good. Ranging from a slightly above average "The Hand That Feeds" to a superior "The Line Begins to Blur", my opinion on the album once I bought it stayed the same, more or less. I wasn't incredibly amazed by this album, but it certainly was very well done. If you like typical industrial rock such as Manson, Rammstein, White Zombie, you'll probably like this album. But as for the casual listener who just hears "The Hand That Feeds" on the radio.. You might be a bit thrown off by some of the tracks on here. The CD ranges from a mild, soft "All the Love in the World" to a quickly paced "Getting Smaller". A good deal of the album is likely about recovering from drug addiction, as he woke up in hospital bed after ODing on drugs a few years back during the Fragility 2.0 tours and from there onward forced himself to quit drinking, quit drugs, and become healthy. A number of the tracks reflect this, although most noticably in "Home", a track not on the US version. For the typical NIN fan, the album is typical fare, most similar to The Downward Spiral above their other albums. No instrumentals here, fairly straightforward. As Reznor himself has stated, the basic opposite of The Fragile. Great album, worth checking out. Some of it could have been made better, certainly. But ultimately, with what's on the radio today that I have to deal with when I'm in the car, I'm still thankful to hear "Only" for the hundredth time above much else of what is on it.
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