We here at LiR are tremendous fans of Trent Reznor, and have been waiting anxiously for his new musical endeavor How To Destroy Angels. We’ve been given two short EPs from the project over the past 2 years, but are finally being given the full length album. It feels good. It’s been a long wait which has seen multiple little Reznors spawned, an Academy Awards victory, and a weird picture of himself at a haunted house.
The new single, “How Long” is an awesomely strange track, as it’s pretty much the closest thing to a straight up pop song that we’ll ever see from Trent & Co. Is that even a bit of Auto-Tune that I hear? Next thing you know, Trent will be producing the next Katy Perry album! I KID, I KID!
Welcome Oblivion will be released on March 5, via Columbia Records and will be available digitally as well as on CD and on Vinyl. The vinyl release will feature a different tracklisting and two bonus tracks exclusive to that format.
Below, check out the video for the new single “How Long”, followed by the track listing for both CD/Digital and Vinyl releases of Welcome Oblivion.
http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=170687806&mediaId=
CD/Digital:
01 The wake-up
02 Keep it together
03 And the sky began to scream
04 Welcome oblivion
05 Ice age
06 On the wing
07 Too late, all gone
08 How long?
09 Strings and attractors
10 We fade away
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 The loop closes
13 Hallowed ground
Vinyl:
01 The wake-up
02 Keep it together
03 And the sky began to scream
04 Ice age
05 Welcome oblivion
06 On the wing
07 Too late, all gone
08 The province of fear
09 How long?
10 Strings and attractors
11 Recursive self-improvement
12 Unintended consequences
13 We fade away
14 The loop closes
15 Hallowed ground
By Richard Pepper
lostinreviewsblog.wordpress.com 
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