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Pete Baran: No it doesn’t. This loop seems to go on forever.
[4]
Brad Shoup: There’s always been a smidgen of the funk in Trent Reznor. The way our two lovebirds go from sneer to snarl on “the beginning is the end/and it/keeps coming around again” reminds me — and this is weird, I know — of Funkadelic. But HTDA fuck the structure up. There ought to be some sort of evil-precise eruption when they hit peak volume, but they give way to a short passage of meek bleep-bloop. It’s gotta be intentional — nothing else on the EP hits like that vocal passage, preferring dissolute industrial atmospherics — but it’s a shame to a guy who has fond memories of “We’re in This Together”.
[5]
Iain Mew: There’s enigmatic, and then there’s just not saying very much. This falls into the latter in a way that undermines its portentous build-up, even as some of the screeches and the increase in volume are bluntly effective.
[5]
Patrick St. Michel: More than half of this song features what sounds like an answering machine’s beep and electronic farts. If it built up to something interesting it might be forgivable, but instead they just shout some lame mantra before letting it peter out.
[2]
Will Adams: Wow, this video game soundtrack is really detailed!
[6]
Katherine St Asaph: Perhaps it’s part of yet another movie score, inexplicably shorn from the movie? The protracted clankery would make sense; it’s paced as a story, not a single. And this is precisely the sort of lonely-laptop guttering one of his characters would go in for. About that, too — let’s all remember the ’90s, specifically how much of this stuff was made how much worse.
[7]
Alfred Soto: Played over the opening credits of a 1996 cyberscare film.
[4]
Josh Langhoff: Before this song came into my life… well, I’m not sure I missed this particular song so bad, but it does make me wanna pull out my Nine Inch Nails CDs and relive riding the bus to a speech contest. Something about the combination of those squiggles and that voice spouting nonsense makes me feel all gooey — and it doubles as a synthpop instructional track!
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