I miss Nine Inch Nails. I know they haven’t gone anywhere; they’ve toured pretty consistently in recent years and Trent Reznor has been churning out film soundtracks at an (appropriately, given his origins) industrial pace. But 13 years on from their last “full” album – i.e. one that’s not made up of ambient soundscapes or stapled-together EPs – it’s hard not to yearn for another monument to pour and obsess over a la Pretty Hate Machine, Downward Spiral or With Teeth. Hell, I’ll take The Slip at this point.
But have you ever wondered what Trent Reznor would be like with a couple of glowsticks and a string vest? That’s effectively the question Nine Inch Noize answers. A collaboration with recent tour-mate Boys Noize, the collection of remixed songs has been released to commemorate the team-up live shows at this year’s Coachella and sees the German-Iraqi DJ add Clubland-like elements to Reznor’s world of weird.
