If Mr. Reznor had released a 10 song CD with the best songs from these sessions, I would be singing its praise. The diamonds are buried pretty deep in shit.
Trent’s back to find his guitar sounds co-opted, his beats carjacked, and his lyrics… well, he got to keep something. Only thing is, they got it all wrong.
I have no problem with the whisper-to-a-scream thing, but it won’t work if you don’t have Nirvana’s tunes or Black Sabbath’s riffs, and The Fragile has neither.