

So here it is, the eighth album from Nine Inch Nails, and the first since 2008's The Slip. There are collaborators you would expect – Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder are on hand – and some you wouldn't: who'd have expected Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac to crop up on a Nine Inch Nails album, let alone the king of the fretless bass session players, Pino Palladino?

This is a new Trent Reznor, free of what he told the Guardian was "an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me … And I'm happy that I don't feel that way any more. I've learned to recognise, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways, the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit. This record was written as the other side of that journey. The despair and loneliness and rage and isolation and the not-fitting-in aspect that still is in me, but I can express that in a way that feels more appropriate to who I am now. And often that rage is quieter."

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