duly performed

yesterday saw the release of the new nine inch nails album (not the new one which was released a year ago, and not the newer one which was released two months ago, but an even newer one). it seems that trent reznor is trying to achieve prolificity before the axe falls

initial impression
i dont think it’s any surprise why the album seems stupid to me. department continual sci-fi themes of a republican-ruled warzone fifteen years from now. why does a reference to a twilight zone episode make me shudder? the lately output features some of the worst lyrics i’ve ever heard from the reznor camp and while trent reznor has hardly been very talented in that department, some of his lyrics were almost so atrocious that they were charming (‘that’s what i get’) like early depeche mode. but this is inexcusable. many albums are deemed unnecessary and this is among the flock of shit which needs to be wiped up. no direction, no real advance and what looks like a token opportunity to pull an example of ‘internet-inventiveness’ which music journalists seem to link reznor to nowadays. how

completely minimal, lyrics have colapsed entirely like an amphetamine/mandrax smoker’s oesophagus

i think, now that i’ve listened a second time, that perhaps ‘lights in the sky’ is my favorite, although still comparatively weak when compared to previous output