Review by JBurchill
4 stars out of 4
Trent Reznor, under the guise of Nine Inch Nails, formed the album USA
Today claimed the #1 record of the year of 1999: The Fragile. It is a two
disc package, totalling with over 20 tracks on the entire album. The two
discs are titled as Left and Right. On the Left disc you will hear the
typical Nine Inch Nails sound; Trent's blaring keyboards playing distorted
intruments over fat drum beats.But also you will hear a new element he
has added into the left disc...there is now acoustic sounds accompanying
the keyboards. There are lots of new sounds that Reznor has put into the
fragile such as the song The Frail, where it is A soft calm Piano solo
that breaks into a booming new song. Throughout the whole album you'll
see instrumentals, no lyrics, just beautifully, well-written instrumentals,
many bands put instrumentals in to break time, but not NIN, NIN has a
point with them.
On the Right disc you will hear more rhythmic sounds, drum beats, and new
sounds from NIN. From the single and very dance-influenced Into the Void
to the most obscure song of all, I'm looking forward to joining you,
finally , you hear the sound of a piano in the backround with drum beats
as the main. Unlike the typical Nine Inch Nails song where it focus' on
Trent's relationships or his self-loathing, this song is completley vague,
and very hard to interpret which makes it very fun to listen to because
everytime you try to understand it it makes more and more sense. Take
USA Today's word...This album is great.
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