1999’s The
Fragile was Nine Inch Nails’ first album in 5 years, and it’s a sprawling beast
of a double album. Split into Left and
Right discs, there’s a LOT to get your teeth into.
There are some
great tunes buried under Trent Reznor's many ‘noise’ experiments – with some really big
choruses, such as the Bond-evoking Day The World Went Away, the lengthy We’re
In This Together and the magnificent brooding of the title track. There is time for some moody funk with the
instrumental La Mer, more fully realized as a proper song later on Into the
Void.
There’s tons
and tons of moody atmosphere on instrumentals like The Frail and the excellent
final track, Ripe [With Decay]. However
much of the rest of the album is full of shouty, noisy brooding tracks, and at
a running total of over 100 minutes over two discs, it makes the album exhausting
to listen to.
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