Once he did the Downward Spiral he kinda ran out of ideas. Year Zero was batshit crazy awesome, and the Reznorator found a new motive in something other than being a whiny emo kid. The sound textures were polished to headpounding perfection, even if the songs were a bit samey.

But this is just him dicking around on a keyboard. In all fairness he’s giving it away free, but I ain’t gonna buy this shit because it’s rubbish compared to the disco and loneliness of With Teeth or the apocalyptic headfuck noise /anthems of YZ. Which annoys me, because I’m the kinda guy who believes that nothing should exist apart from the final perfect product, instead of some halfassed half baked ideas turded out as an online album.

I liked The Fragile too. He’s been experimenting with music and putting it out since the beginning. Some people only like his earlier, harder stuff. I haven’t listened to this but if it’s unanimous, it’s probably true. This is poop.

I thought the new Tool album (10000 Days) sounded repetitive and dated. But after a few more listens, I picked up the emotion that was a little more subtle (for Tool) and realized that it was pretty awesome.

But goddamn, at least this isn’t some terrible crap like Arcade Fire or Decemberists. That music (and other pretentious indy rock) got lauded by shitty critics all over the place. But it blows goats.