The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails Reviews

This is without a doubt my favourite album. If you want a rollercoaster of emotion, from boiling anger to sublime beauty and calm, this is the album for you. Although commercially not as much as a success as the previous album The Downward Spiral, I think this is more of an artistic achievement. The two disc album is very ...  Read the complete review

THE BAND Nine Inch Nails is a band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor. The only constant member is Reznor with other musicians coming and going. Trent Reznor IS Nine Inch Nails. Other members featured on The Fragile (and at the live shows) are:- Robin Finck - Guitar, Synthesizer Danny Lohner - Bass, ...  Read the complete review

In 1999, Nine Inch Nails released ?their? third full-length album, ?The Fragile.? NIN?s 1994 album, the moody and incredibly heavy industrial effort of ?The Downward Spiral,? was a huge success, leading to it being regarded by many critics and magazines as the best rock album of that quite ...  Read the complete review

With the music business becoming increasingly manufactured and meaningless, more and more people are looking for an alternative which provides a deeper, more complex form of aural pleasure. The rise of angst-ridden pop-punk seems to reflect this, but for those who like their music with a bit more bite, Nine Inch Nails may provide the ...  Read the complete review

Before I make my comments on this album let me first say that Trent Reznor is one of the most talented musical composers in the world at the moment. His brilliance shines through in the awesome 'Pretty Hate Machine' and the superb 'Downward Spiral'. He has written some of the best anthemic Industrial rock ...  Read the complete review

By 1996, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) had everything. His last album "the downward spiral" had sold over two million copies; he had made a lot of money for his work on the "Natural Born Killers" soundtrack and contributions to artists like Tori Amos and David Bowie; he also gained the respect of the artists ...  Read the complete review

Despite what the title says it's a masterfully constructed complex hard hitting piece of art. I was completely amazed when I first heard it. To know that this is all done by Trent Reznor himself is just incredible and he proves to be one of the most creative people in rock music ever. Not nearly as depressing as Downward can be. ...  Read the complete review

I was eagerly anticipating this new album (the first new Nine Inch Nails album in FIVE YEARS!) and I was overjoyed with how well it turned out. There was a lot of things Trent Reznor had to face when recording this album (writer's block, falling out of friendships, loss of loved ones, constant media scrutiny and speculation) but ...  Read the complete review

This was another long awaited NIN album and not for a second did I doubt that Mr Reznor would let me down, the first couple of seconds of listening to this told me that it was another Reznor masterpiece!, I could sit for hours and listen to this, I would reccomend parts of it to some none NIN fans (I do keep trying to convert people as I ...  Read the complete review

If you don?t have the NIN album ? The Fragile, then go and buy it now. Spread over two CD?s and twenty three songs this album is a musical master piece and great value. It may have been a long time in coming but it was well worth the wait. As per usual on a NIN album the songs range from the heavy through to almost what could be called ...  Read the complete review

Trent has done it again. What will we do without him? This double pack has taken me a while to listen to especially when you get stuck on a track that hits you like a tidal wave. I've had this album now for roughly six months, and its only now I've managed to listen to the whole thing without hiting the rewind button four dozen ...  Read the complete review

the latest in a tradition for old Trenty baby of albums being torn to bits, some DJs working on the mess and stuck together again like a paper mache balloon. In all the previous cases (broken- Fixed, Downward Spiral - Further Down the Spiral) it has worked.. this album is no exception, bringing together the talents of trent himself, his ...  Read the complete review

Trent Reznor is the king of industrial. This latest release from NIN combines all of the best things about this genre, dark, atmospheric lyrics combined with hard & fast industrial dance beats. If you've never heard industrial i suggest you borrow or even buy this album. You'll love it. This album is spread over a double CD, ...  Read the complete review

This latest offering from Trent Reznor & co. is pretty much in the same vein as "Further Down the Spiral" and "Broken", expanding on the hard edged sound that has been at the forefront of Industrial rock music for almost a decade. "The Fragile" is split into 2 CD's, entitled 'left" and ...  Read the complete review

On first listening to this album the mass of sounds and harshness of the synthesizers and the guitar effects can be off-putting. Warmth is not a word that Trent Reznor (the writer and performer and the only member of Nine Inch Nails) has in his vocabulary. Everything has a digital feel to it. The five years of work that went into the ...  Read the complete review

NIN have returned to fame with a stormer hear. After the drugs and the aguements you would'nt think the quality of this album was possible. But the Fragile is such a mixture of depresing songs and upbeat songs. For example "the day the whole world went away" is such a depresing song but has real quality about it. But the ...  Read the complete review

This album has been a long time in coming, but is worth every minute of the wait. It is a massive, powerful, possessing collection of twenty-three songs spread across two cd’s. Many of the songs are very dark, in usual NIN style, with names like ‘Ripe (with decay)’ and ‘Into the Void’ but there are some ...  Read the complete review

Nine Inch Nails make a very welcome return to the scene with The Fragile. Two CD’s and 23 tracks, this album is an absolute monster, and is absolutely brilliant. The music is very powerful on the whole, with a couple of more gentle songs such as La Mer. But it is the faster more driving songs that make this album so excellent ...  Read the complete review

After the immense commercial success of the defining, ground-breaking 'Industrial' (Trent doesn't see his music as being Industrial though oddly enough) masterpiece 'The Downward Spiral', Trent Reznor went into a 5yr hiatus where he was slowly constructing a new re-invention that would be less commercial, more ...  Read the complete review

A wonderful album. Something to put on when your in that mixed mood and just don't know what kind of music you want on. It has a bit of everything hard core rock and techno style sounds and then the softer rock and more ambient kinds, like the title song itself. It comes on two cd's and is definatly worth the money, both ...  Read the complete review