Album: Nine Inch Nails

Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Interscope

By Simon Price

Nothing spells "Christmas" quite like a load of remixes of intense, neocon-baiting tracks from an already tune-starved Nine Inch Nails album, does it? Trent Reznor's decision to put what is already his most "difficult" record in the hands of assorted noiseniks (eg Ladytron, New Order, Paul Epworth) certainly appears perverse, but the results aren't actually all that forbidding. You'd never use Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (or Year Zero Remixed) as an NIN primer for a novice, but it's a not-unpleasant addendum to the industrial icons' oeuvre, actually bringing certain songs back from the brink of unlistenability. SP

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