Editorial Reviews
The Fragile [Explicit Lyrics]
Music Review:
Music Review
Der Jenaische Wein- & Bierrufer: Musical Humor with the Bach Family
Music: The Fountains of Paradise
Electrical Lovers Presents: Chillout Lovers [Import]
Extinction Level Event (The Final World Front) [Clean]
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Il Primo libro di Capricci
Feets, Don't Fail Me Now [Import]
Flava for the Soul [Explicit Lyrics]
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Trent Reznor took five years to record this monstrous double-CD set, wielding a perfectionist's touch in the production and the subtlety of a chainsaw in the musicianship. The result is uncompromising, full of hysterical noise and yet utterly accessible. Somehow, someway, this is one of the best pop records of the year. --Matthew Cooke
Amazon.com
The Fragile is even bleaker than 1994's The Downward Spiral as it lurches along with a perpetual scowl. A frenzied collection of buzz-saw pop, Trent Reznor's grim opus yo-yos through two CDs with scattershot intensity. Hushed one minute and explosive the next, spite and anger intermix with heartbreaking resignation, sometimes in the course of one song. Still, Reznor's dour and uncompromising approach is accessible and undeniably entertaining, even when he eschews vocals altogether. Unchanged are... read more