The fragile

Description

Return of the pope of industrial, one of the few current musicians Bowie venerates. After launching Marylin Manson, Trent Reznor, slightly overtaken by his pupil, finally comes back in force with a stunning double CD. Dark, devastated, paranoid and suicidal, "The Fragile" will not disorient the group’s regular listeners. It is rather the scale of the project that is likely to knock the casual buyer off balance. A sonic orgy, a deluge of guitars and tribal rhythms, an excess of effects, of broad strokes and fine lines. It is an intimate diary revealing the personal Apocalypse of a highly troubled artist, who has chosen as therapy to literally put his guts on the mixing desk, ultimately leading to a strange form of beauty, close to the photographs of Joel Peter Witkins or the morbid investigations of David Lynch. Sensitive souls abstain, but NIN faithful do not expect to be wooed with sweet talk.