How To Destroy Angels – ST
by Pete on June 4, 2010
In case you missed it, Trent Reznor’s new band How To Destroy Angels is offering their debut EP as a free download via their website. I picked up a copy earlier this week, and have given it a few listens.
My initial reaction is that this album would have been really good in 1998. As it is, it’s decent stuff, but nothing to write home about. It would fit in perfectly alongside the Delerium albums of the late 1990s, when they started bringing in Kristy Thirsk, Sarah McLachlan, and other breathy female vocalists.
Which brings me to my second reaction. I’m rather confused as to why Reznor went to the trouble of announcing that Nine Inch Nails was breaking up/being retired/whatever, instead of just saying “Hey guys, my wife is in the band now!”
The six tracks on the EP are not fundamentally different from any of the Nine Inch Nails material that has come out over the course of the last five years, other than the addition of the aforementioned breathy female vocals. Generally speaking, if you liked that stuff, you’ll probably like this EP. Still, I have yet to find anything on this record that makes for particularly compelling listening.
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