And all that could have been

Description

Sacred Roger Waters of goth rock by those English jokers, Trent Reznor surprised everyone in 1999 by releasing "The Fragile," an album as long as a day without hate that indeed borrowed from this soaring tradition initiated by Pink Floyd. Long tracks, extended instrumental passages, the record sold slowly, the blind acceptance of questioning was not the strong point of the audience rallied by the early exploits of NIN. But, and even if he may not be the David Bowie of industrial rock, Reznor, to whom Marilyn Manson owes his career, knows how to get out of a bad situation or rather ride the muddy wave of hasty judgments. Hammered by gigantic drums, lifted by guitar riffs as high as leaden cathedrals and swollen with lustful synthetic crackles, the sixteen tracks offered here, recorded during the 2000 tour, are all imbued with that very high tension that makes Reznor the pope of acceptable noise.
Picking a track from this sultry delivery is an impossible mission as they seem intertwined with one another, but for pure vice, we will mention The Day The World Went Away, a long atomic litany and irrefutable proof that the apocalypse is now.