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Title: Terrible lyrics, same old sounds
Review: With one exception: "Know what you are?" is Trent at his best.As for the rest of the album: you've heard it already. The lyrics are woeful - you'd find better in a high school poetry class, with titles like "Death". "With teeth" looks like an attempt to rewrite "closer" but it backfires badly. Maybe he thought "She gets you hard" would be all sexy and shocking. Maybe it is to teen girls, I dunno.There's the trouble: the album's too juvenile in tone for older NIN fans who've been around since Spiral or before, and it's too retro in sound for the younger audience I assume he's attempting to market to.Not the worst music being released, but that's not necessarily saying much.
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