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Nine Inch Nails
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With Teeth
Interscope Records
Release: 5/03/2005
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Rated:
Review by:
Caz* Bevan
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We never thought he would do it! Trent Reznor has finally
released a new album - not a live album, not a remix album,
not some sort of greatest hits plus one - he's released
something new! It's complete with 13 new tracks we were first
introduced to via the radio and Web site with the first single,
"The Hand That Feeds." After six weeks on Billboard's Modern
Rock chart, "The Hand That Feeds" stands steady at #3. This
was a perfect choice for a first single. It's Marilyn Manson
meets Madonna, but so much better with the familiar and
unusual electric-pop Reznor brings to the goth/industrial
industry.
Reznor is less angry and dark then we are use to, but as usual
he's right on top and with the times - fronting the flow of the
new "pissed off generation." New, and surprisingly bright we
could call it the angry-disco generation. It's heartache, light
shows, and dance shoes all the way! Although he introduced
us to a new sense of calm, Reznor encourages his fans to get
angry with his music. Revolutionary-Reznor will be the father
of the remix generation with the release of "The Hand That
Feeds" in GarageBand format for Mac users. This way pretty
much any fairly equipped GarageBand user can remake,
remix, and release their very own depiction of
madness.
It is no surprise that With Teeth features a
mixture of Reznor's infamous industrial ballads, hyper-speed
chants, and vocal trance. The album is similar enough to his
others to seem like a continuation of what is safe and familiar
to Nine Inch Nail's fans. It would be impossible for Reznor to
top the sort of static attachment felt for songs like "The
Wretched" and "Something I Can Never Have." And he
doesn't. Topping former albums doesn't seem to be a concern
of Reznor's. He seems to think he's long forgotten. Track 9 -
"Getting Smaller," Reznor sings "I'm just a face in the crowd...
I'm afraid that I'm starting to fade away." I think not! He's at
it again and adding to; converting a new generation - reforming
and informing the new dance-rock rebellion. And from Trent,
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