“Trent Reznor has cited Gary Numan’s alienated Eighties synth pop as a major influence, and Numan credits a NIN show with inspiring his creative rebirth. Reznor is absent on this comeback LP, though Robin Finck, guitarist and longtime NIN collaborator, figures prominently in the sound, a searing digital-industrial display brightened by Numan’s slightly cracked choirboy high tenor. It’s that cyborg ”