How to Destroy Angels - How to Destroy Angels
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Artist: How to Destroy AngelsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: EP
CD Release Date: 2010-07-06
Music Label: The Null Corporation
Soundtracks:
- The Space in Between
- Parasite
- Fur-Lined
- BBB
- The Believers
- A Drowning
Music reviews of How to Destroy Angels
Music Review: Reznor's new band delivers
Rating: 4 Stars
At the start of the year Trent Reznor promised fans via Nine Inch Nails official website that although NIN was done touring for the time being, he would be back soon, with new music from NIN as well as some other projects. Over the first several months of 2010 fans were teased by pictures and videos over at the NIN official website--pictures and video clips of Trent and his wife Mariqueen Maandig working on something. Then, this past spring the project was finally revealed to be a new band, How to Destroy Angels, named after a Coil EP, featuring Reznor, Maandig and NIN programmer Atticus Ross. A full length video for the song "A Drowning" was soon released and shortly thereafter an entire EP was available for free online.
Rather than sounding just like Nine Inch Nails but with a woman singing, HTDA is an altogether different entity. How to Destroy Angels has Reznor's signature written all over it, yet it sounds distinct from Nine Inch Nails. While NIN could be loosely described as "industrial rock" (although that description is woefully superficial and inadequate) How to Destroy Angels is less rocking, more laid back, more danceable. In short, the music on this EP lends itself more to a spin at a club as opposed to a rock concert. This is not at all a bad thing, as it only goes to show how versatile of an artist Reznor really is. Maandig, formerly of the band West Indian Girl, proves to be a fine singer. Her voice doesn't have much inflection, yet it doesn't sound exactly monotone either, and lends itself to the Massive Attack/ Portishead styling of the music nicely.
The EP starts out with "The Space in Between," a rather downbeat, catchy, spacey opening that's quite captivating. The offbeat "Parasite," with its white noise and effects sounds a bit like "Year Zero" era (2007) NIN. The very danceable," almost Luscious Jackson sounding "Fur Lined" is probably the catchiest song on the EP and could easily be successful on an alternative rock station or make it as a cross-over hit. The hypnotic "BBB" (Big Black Boots) is really offbeat, and like "Parasite" sounds a bit like "Year Zero" NIN. This one took me a few listens to really appreciate, but it's definitely a grower. "The Believers" is the hardest song on the EP to describe. Listing to it, I feel as though I am taking a journey though an Amazonian forest. Like some of the other songs there are traces of "Year Zero" here as well as World-Beats. The EP's finale, "A Drowning" is excellent. It's a melancholy, epic closer in the vein of "Hurt," "Right Where it Belongs" and "Zero-Sum."
Is Trent Reznor capable of making bad music? 20 years of great album after album seems to suggest that the answer is a definitive no. If this EP is just a taste of what HTDA has in store for their full length album, it will definitely be something to look forward to next year.
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The first post NIN project of Trent Reznor featuring vocals from wife and ex-West Indian Girl Mariqueen Maandig and his regular collaborator Atticus RosPop CDs
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