““Got a new face, it feels alright,” Trent Reznor bellows mere seconds into ‘Bad Witch’’s chaotic opener, the brilliantly-titled ‘Shit Mirror’. It’s a slight stretch of a statement – ‘Bad Witch’ is less a new visage for Nine Inch Nails, and more a refining of everything that already made them such a formidable force. Plastic surgery on an already chiselled jawline, if you will. Not that it matters ”
“Nine Inch Nails' Bad Witch is their finest work in over a decade”
“Trent Reznor’s third EP-length NIN release in the last two years is the best of the lot, with a raw and rough sound that feels both unfinished and alive.”
“The level of artistic freedom Trent and Atticus give themselves on the somewhat uneven Bad Witch is more exciting than just about any Nine Inch Nails release since 2008.”
““EPs feel less important in today’s music-isn’t-as-important-as-it-once-was world. Why make it easier to ignore?” So read a post on an obscure forum by a user named teitan. The post, widely attributed to Nine Inch Nails’ misanthrope frontman Trent Reznor, goes some distance in demystifying the group’s decision to call their latest release ‘Bad Witch’ their ninth studio album despite its curiously ”
