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How To Destroy Angels

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Debut full-length album of post-industrial electronica from Trent Reznor's new band, featuring his wife Mariqueen Maandig, art director Rob Sheridan, and fellow Oscar winner Atticus Ross

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6.4

Label
Columbia
UK Release date
04/03/2013
US Release date
05/03/2013
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  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    By many measures, it's the most measured record of Reznor's career, yet it's also his most melodic, showing that this former angry young man has a design to grow old gracefully
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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    A solid, often stunning record
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  3. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    Will entice any fan of Reznor’s previous work and may garner listens from those looking for not a bang, but a slow burn to the apocalypse
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  4. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    No matter what Trent Reznor does—scores a bestselling videogame, wins an Oscar, forms a new band with his wife—he’ll never completely shake Nine Inch Nails
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  5. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The Nine Inch Nails auteur's new band feels like a real partnership, with Reznor handing lead vocals to his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, for an album of architecturally perfect, slow-slither electro pop
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  6. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    After a promising first EP in 2010, the project now sounds stalled amid a flood of possibilities and ideas, each distracting and detracting from another
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  7. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Welcome oblivion is a technical marvel, as everything the good Dr. Reznor works on becomes, even if its unintentional reprisals of earlier NIN material hamper it
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  8. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    When you take a step back, it’s just another album for Reznor, Ross and Maandig – and that’s probably how history will remember it
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  9. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    Sorely lacking in conviction, energy or inspiration
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