“Trent Reznor was ahead of his time. Like nobody else in the 1980s, he heard the smoldering teen rage inside the blip and bleep of early synth-pop: Under all the Atari beats and shiny-shiny haircuts, there was an ordinary loser kid’s heart burning for vengeance against the world, and Reznor amped that sound into the […]”
“Former alt-rock star Trent Reznor releases his first studio album since the 2xCD disaster The Fragile. Here Reznor mostly eschews his hard, corse sound, and the result is a record that's playful, coy, and shows a flair for the dramatic.”
