Blog: Idolator

In the decade after 1994's The Downward Spiral made Nine Inch Nails a household name, Trent Reznor cultivated a reputation as a reclusive perfectionist of nearly Chinese Democracy -level procrastination, releasing just one bloated double album, 1999's The Fragile . And though 2005's With Teeth hinted at a leaner and more workmanlike model of NIN, nobody could've predicted the accelerated pace at which Reznor would begin releasing music after completing his Interscope contract. In March, the instrumental double album Ghosts I-IV was dropped [...]