With Teeth
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With Teeth
With Teeth (stylized as [WITH_TEETH]) is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on May 3, 2005 by Nothing Records and Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It also features contributions from musician Dave Grohl and future band member Atticus Ross.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Former alt-rock star Trent Reznor releases his first studio album since the 2xCD disaster The Fragile. Here Reznor mostly eschews his hard, corse sound, and the result is a record that's playful, coy, and shows a flair for the dramatic.
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Drowned In Sound
With Teeth contains its fair share of ear-splitting havoc, the songs on it have a leaner feel than those on previous Halo discs. 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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Rolling Stone
On Teeth, he abandons the quiet piano diddles of The Fragile for pure aggro. The first half is basically Reznor saying, “You want a hit single? I’ll give you a hit single,” with simplistic, radio-ready sludge a la “The Hand That Feeds.” But the second half has Nine Inch Nails’ richest, heaviest music since Downward Spiral, with the “Billie Jean” drums of “Only,” the monolithic synth crunch of “Beside You in Time,” the Pixies-meet-Pere Ubu clang of “Getting Smaller.” It all builds to the one big “Hurt”-style piano ballad on the album, “Right Where It Belongs,” so mournful that Johnny Cash must be singing it in heaven. It’s vintage Nine Inch Nails: New Wave with a heart of darkness.
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Av Club
Reznor sounds inspired rather than pushed. Sonically, those tracks have little to do with the music that made Nine Inch Nails famous, and maybe that's where middle age means for Reznor to go. He's clearly still capable of finding sparks, but they've changed location.
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Slant
While With Teeth satisfies in all the expected ways, not much has changed in Reznor’s world: He still goes out like a lamb.
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NIN
With Teeth (also known as Halo 19 or [WITH_TEETH]) is the fifth full-length studio album by Nine Inch Nails, released on May 3, 2005. It spawned three singles (The Hand That Feeds, Only and Every Day Is Exactly The Same), four tour legs, and much celebration for Trent Reznor's sobriety.
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Genius
The lyrics suggest it was written about addiction using the metaphor of a seductive woman to represent the addiction.
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COS
This self-decribed “definitive version” of With Teeth was prepared by Trent Reznor, his NIN collaborator Atticus Ross, and art director John Crawford. The set features a new remaster of the album on 180-gram vinyl, “with lots of details attended to that you may never notice but we care about.” Notably, the B-Side “Home” appears as the 11th track on the album following “Sunspots”.
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Diffuser
With Teeth is the last of this epic run, released in 2005. It's a landmark album both in Reznor's life and in the Nine Inch Nails discography, marking the musician's first release after successfully completing rehab.
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All Music
With Teeth is an impressive achievement technically and the music is generally strong, yet there's a nagging problem -- namely, there's nothing new here. It's not that Reznor is recycling himself -- he's far too compulsive a craftsman for that -- but he's not pushing himself, either, preferring to work within the box he created himself ten years ago.
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Exclaim
Nine Inch Nails are reissuing their 2005 record With Teeth as a "Definite Edition" on deluxe vinyl.
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Music Vaultz
At long last, the definitive version of With Teeth, meticulously prepared by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & NIN art director, John Crawford.
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Altrevolt
The “definitive version” of ‘White Teeth’ was developed by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and art director John Crawford. The set features a new remaster of the album on 180-gram vinyl, “with lots of details attended to that you may never notice but we care about.” Notably, the B-Side “Home” appears as the 11th track on the album following “Sunspots”.
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Spin
Age hasn't mellowed Trent Reznor. It has only turned his primal rage into visceral self-loathing — a transformation that makes With Teeth the most insular NIN album yet. Somehow he makes the pathos work: When he shouts, "Don't you fucking know what you are?" over blistering double-track drums and whirring synthesizers, you can't help but contemplate your own place in the universe. Reznor's not screaming into the void anymore; now he's figuring out how to live inside it.
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Last Fm
With Teeth (stylized as ) is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on May 3, 2005, by Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It was Reznor's first original studio album since The Fragile, released in 1999. Reznor has indicated that the album is influenced by his battle with, and recovery from, alcoholism and substance abuse between albums.
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Yahoo
This self-decribed “definitive version” of White Teeth was prepared by Trent Reznor, his NIN collaborator Atticus Ross, and art director John Crawford. The set features a new remaster of the album on 180-gram vinyl, “with lots of details attended to that you may never notice but we care about.” Notably, the B-Side “Home” appears as the 11th track on the album following “Sunspots”.
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BBC
With Teeth is the sound of a man intent on proving himself again. Despite its aggressive title, this is the most subdued and seductive Nine Inch Nails album yet, an effect achieved by stripping down the raging guitars and employing synths to build up dark, brooding and often beautiful sonic landscapes. So while the spittle-flecked rage of "You Know What You Are?" could have come from The Downward Spiral, it is a rare revisiting of old ground.
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Houston Press
With Teeth is not a bad album, don't get me wrong. If Reznor had a release schedule like Alice Cooper or The Cure you probably wouldn't even have given it much thought. But because he's just not all that prolific sometimes it stands out as this weird drunken bar fight of a record in the middle of an otherwise really excellent and fascinating career.
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Loudwire
An update (and an improvement) on the ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ song “Down In It,” “Only” is one of the funkier songs in the NIN cannon. Reznor has said that it’s about the commercial demands of the business. Coming six years after the not-especially-well-received ‘The Fragile,’ Reznor had to decide if he would change to adapt to fit in with the rock music of the mid-’00s. We’re glad he went with the road less traveled. His music may not be as close to the zeitgeist as we’d like, but he’s consistently followed his muse and has continuously released challenging and interesting music.
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Herald and Review
"With Teeth" is a back-to-basics album that generates a froth and a hissing fit. Lead single "The Hand That Feeds," a rancorous lashing out against the Bush administration, was up for a Grammy award in the Best Hard Rock Performance category.
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Eastbay Times
In support of NIN’s latest release “With Teeth,” the three bands, although strikingly different in sound, complemented one another to deliver a collectively hyper-aggressive rock show.
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Blabbermouth
According to VibrantSound.com, the Japanese edition of NINE INCH NAILS' new album, "With Teeth", will include three bonus tracks: "Home" (which has been played every show the band's current U.S. tour) and mixes of "Right Where It Belongs" and "The Hand that Feeds".
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Mixdown
At long last, the definitive version of With Teeth, meticulously prepared by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and NIN art director John Crawford.
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98 Online
The two-LP vinyl collection was, as the NIN website describes it, “meticulously prepared” by band mates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross in collaboration with art director John Crawford. As for what makes it “definitive,” the album was remastered just this year, and includes “lots of details attended to that you may never notice but we care about.”
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Mind Equals Blown
When I discuss my favorite Nine Inch Nails albums, it seems like With Teeth gets lost in the mix when it’s maybe the most underrated album in this catalog. There’s an honestly you can appreciate and relate to. It was the album that kept the Reznor ethos while making him more human, bringing a new generation of Nine Inch Nails fans in.
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Daily Nexus
On the first track of the new Nine Inch Nails album, With Teeth, Trent Reznor utters the words, “Why do you get all the love in the world?” in a blues-tinted falsetto. The bass drum backs him up with a trance-techno thud, and the electric piano is drawn straight from a commercial pop wonderland. We have entered a world of antithesis, a world where a songwriter wears a crown of neurotic thorns, lined with seductive, romantic roses. Simply put, this is classic Nine Inch Nails.
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Urban Dictionary
In 2005,NIN released the album,"With Teeth" the songs "The Hand that feeds" and "Only" were popular hits,they made a music video for "Only" which was regular rotation video on MTV.
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Quora
It’s not exactly what a die hard fan on NIN would have expected to hear but I think it’s a good album. It has a more rocking approach which makes it different than the metal-industrial and electronic approach NIN had in the first albums.
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Nash 106.1
Nine Inch Nails has issued eight major albums, which have generally received both critical and commercial acclaim. Historically, NIN releases have been assigned a "Halo" index number. For example, the album 'With Teeth' is also known as Halo 19.
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The New Republic
A longtime hero among rock techheads for the loving noisy artifice of his one- man-band recordings, Reznor is so eager to be aligned with the home-remixing phenomenon that he has sponsored a compilation album of fan remixes of songs from White Teeth and Year Zero. Called The Limitless Potential, the album of twenty-one selections is free for downloading, although the individual stems of the tracks that the fans contributed are not accessible for further remixing through the Nine Inch Nails site.
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Michigan Daily
White Teeth, therefore, was the redemption piece. With the overwhelmingly positive response, Reznor and Interscope could breathe easy - Nine Inch Nails proved to be the unit-moving force it once was.
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Billboard
"With Teeth" is the follow-up to 1999's "The Fragile," which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 892,000 copies in the United States.
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