The best tracks on With Teeth are the slow, and (relatively) quiet ones. Not to say that the harder ones don’t kick ass, they just seem more pushbutton.
The Golden Age of Grotesque is cloaked as an electro-metal reminiscence of the roaring ’20s, America’s first counter-cultural movement of the Twentieth Century.
Elements of electro & Moog thrown into a blend of James Brown & Funkadelic, sorta like Devo, Kraftwerk & Can get together & go off on an old-school soul-bender.
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.