Year Zero is dark, like peering through a smoky looking glass. It’s also dense and overly-layered, making it almost impenetrable. Interestingly, it lacks the introspective musings that
NIN usually offer up; instead, it's a concept album… religious/political nonsense… America…year 2022, etc. Boring. It's noisy and frustrating; you could argue that so was
Broken (1992), but at least it was focussed and knew when to stop.
YZ goes on forever, dragging me into a state of sensory ennui. Some rehashed riffs from
The Fragile (1999) excite briefly before being lost in the maelstrom. A few tracks stand out like pillars of light from the flat landscape. It's a manifesto, and it's not something I can fall in love with.
Songs of Note:
In This Twilight;
Zero Sum
2½ (I'll push the goddamn button myself) out of 5
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