Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
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Nine Inch NailsWith Teeth (Nothing)
Poster boy for the industrial Nineties, Trent Reznor returns clean and sober and packing a ferocious chomp on With Teeth. When last the dark lord checked in, on 1999's sonically numbing The Fragile, it was a weak coda to the powerful NIN machine that turned out genre-defining discs Broken, The Downward Spiral, and Pretty Hate Machine. Consider With Teeth a return to form that substitutes the depthless noir of Reznor's past material with thunder gray, a night shade that allows for more texture and atmosphere. The result is that Teeth is a seamless effort, tracks numbering an auspicious 13 and a single – appropriately titled "The Hand That Feeds." Reznor bolsters his trademark whisper-to-a-biblical-roar by adding Dave Grohl on drums, which solders tracks like "All the Love in the World," "Sunspots," and "Love Is Not Enough" into a percussive cocoon. That's Reznor's devilish secret here, along with his brushed chromium vocals, and it works because he's moved beyond the angst. It also makes Bowie-esque "Only" and funky...
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