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Current yet sounding potentially classic already... Reznor forces himself further into the mainstream with With Teeth--but on his own terms.
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Individual instruments are easier to identify, and NIN now sound like more of an organic unit that's augmented by machines and electronics, rather than driven by them. It also contains some of the most accessible and light-hearted numbers that Reznor's produced in his career.
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More in line with his tighter debut, Pretty Hate Machine, With Teeth is made up of bursts of dark, scary and paranoid gut punches.
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Entertainment WeeklyReznor seems to have finally grasped that listening to a NIN album should not be as torturous as whatever artistic agony went into its creation. [29 Apr 2005, p.145]
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With Teeth's biggest surprise is how immediately gratifying the majority of its songs are.
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The New York TimesThis time he's back to attack mode. Nearly every song bristles and slams. [2 May 2005]
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A lean, aggressive and thoroughly relevant album.... If you really need to spend any money on an album where a multi-millionaire relentlessly tells you how remorselessly shit life is; make it this one.
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BlenderAn hour's worth of the good stuff: churning, yearning synth-rock. [Jun 2005, p.114]
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Q MagazineAt times, a work of considerable beauty. [Jun 2005, p.108]
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Consider With Teeth a return to form that substitutes the depthless noir of Reznor's past material with thunder gray, a night shade that allows for more texture and atmosphere.
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Reznor doesn't attempt to bludgeon the listener with either overreaching musical ambition or awkward lyrical poignancy, making With Teeth that rare animal: a Nine Inch Nails record that doesn't force a false sense of visceral urgency.
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Rolling StoneOn Teeth, he abandons the quiet piano diddles of The Fragile for pure aggro. [5 May 2005, p.70]
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New Musical Express (NME)It is, shudder to think, Nine Inch Nails' pop album. Or, at least, Reznor is returning to the more song-orientated territory of 'Pretty Hate Machine'. [23 Apr 2005, p.49]
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For a guy that has so little to say with so few ways to say it, Trent Reznor has mastered the art of making what is old sound new again.
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Perhaps its primary feat is that the music manages to sound fresher than anything industrial-tinged has a right to sound.
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With Teeth manages to flip the script on Reznor's recent M.O. Instead of fronting like a more feminine Al Jourgensen-- hard, coarse, yet not totally abrasive-- Reznor comes across as the masculine yin to Shirley Manson's alluring yang: playful, coy, and with a flair for the dramatic.
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Quite frankly, this is the record that NIN should have released if Reznor had wanted to capitalize on the success of The Downward Spiral.
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While With Teeth satisfies in all the expected ways, not much has changed in Reznor's world.
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A tight, straightforward set of serviceable Nine Inch Nails songs, with brief moments of inspiration and lots of fan- and radio-friendly hooks.
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UncutIt's hard to shake the feeling that this return to decay-drenched digital rock is the sound of Reznor playing to the gallery. [Jun 2005, p.97]
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Trent Reznor has run out of ideas.
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A record that's half as long as The Fragile but just as plodding and mummified.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 306 out of 339
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Mixed: 20 out of 339
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Negative: 13 out of 339
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TravisD.Aug 19, 2007One of Trent's best albums
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SakayeSueMay 20, 2005
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MatthewBMay 9, 2005It was worth the wait