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Aw shit, here we go again. Another NIN discography run-through. I absolutely adored what I heard last year as my hyperfixation kicked in, and I thought I should do it again, for the record and for the thrills. I'll also be going through Björk's discography in tandem, like I did the first time around. I won't give a review for every single entry, just the stuff I feel I need to comment on. For instance, Pretty Hate Machine, NIN's debut album, is also Pretty Highly ... read more

Angela, I love and miss you, and I think you have an overall interesting music taste, but this was kinda eh. "August" is a good time, though.

GOD I LOVE WHEN AN ALBUM IS ALL OVER THE PLACE GENRE-WISE WHILE STILL FEELING COHESIVE. I LOVE WHEN EACH SOUND IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECTED, NAILED, BODIED. I LOVE WHEN EACH SONG FEELS LIKE ITS OWN DISTINCT UNIVERSE WHILE NOT FEELING OUT OF PLACE ON THE RECORD AS A WHOLE. I LOVE SPATIAL AND ALIEN UNDERTONES.

Here's what every song on this album makes me feel:

"A Spell, a Prayer": Sounds like we're boarding a spaceship with our family to a better world.

"Black ... read more

I... did not expect to like this as much as I do.

The first two tracks were definitely rough, but as I eased into the sound of the album, I found myself enjoying it a lot more. It's a lot of weird, deconstructed club-adjacent music with super confrontational lyrics, which I actually understood! I speak French fluently, et honnêtement, les paroles étant en français était la meilleure surprise de l'album, je ne m'attendais pas à cela ... read more