Listening to The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails as a teenager was a defining, formative musical experience (much as it was for our own Trent Wolbe). It was the first time music felt truly dangerous, like I was hearing something I wasn't supposed to hear (ironic for an album that sold more than four million copies). But more importantly to me, it was the first time I listened to an album and could barely discern what most of the instruments were. It was a confusion that inspired me to dig into the album time and time again to deconstruct the auditory puzzles it presented me with. Over the past 24 years or so, Trent Reznor has made a career defined by those puzzles, by melding the machine with the organic — injecting just enough...
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