MUSIC! 'How To Destroy Angels' by How To Destroy Angels

Trent Reznor has gone and married a girl. After his band the Nine Inch Nails departed after a very great few years of tour, he had told his people he'd be making something sort of new and this is the first result. I will be completely honest it's not very common that I think it is good for a musician to create with his lover or wife. Some exceptions of course can be brought to brain (Sonny and Cher, WHAM!) but mostly these types of collaborations don't bring out the better of any of the artists.

The first time I listened to these 6 songs I was like 'It's musical like Trent but it's got this girl singing' and it was hard to get over this exit ramp. But then something happened about when I'm over the second way through: it was like wow. She is at first the sound of Nine Inch Nails on a chalkboard or some whining sorority babe, then it hit me that she wasn't either of those two. She has a lot of presence and is breathing longer than Trent Reznor would if he was the person on the microphone. More of a percussion type singer in the vein of a Phil Collins or even a Chuck D maybe, but she is actually holding out the notes longer and more appealing with the similar anger managed percussion and drum bass sounds underneath.

The second song is actually more like a NIN song with Trent and Kewpie Doll singing at the same moment, and it's pretty great. I found more that I listened the more I was drawn to listening in again like maybe later Neu! or mid-period Wire maybe? I don't really know. It's kind of it's own sound, something unusually in the times. 'Fur Lined' is a lot like the song by Trent called 'Only' in fact I'd bet he used the same drum box for the production sounds. She is growing on me. At seven minutes, the EP closer 'The Drowning' is exceptional on headphones and very closer in sound to some of Reznor's last few recordings. I think this is a great start for a 'new' band and I hope they don't get tired of fucking so they can make new music (rumor is a baby is next, that's kind of interesting! I hope it's 'Head Like a Hole! haha!)