Ps and Qs

There are the Ps, now here are the Qs:

1. When you start to fall off bar stools and struggle on the floor like a turtle on its back, is it time to quit drinking, quit drinking for the night, or should you dive straight back into your natural habitat and keep on swimming?
2. Does How to Destroy Angles’ debut represent as big a step back for Trent Reznor as I think it does, or am I just not hearing it right?
3. Did Saturn prefer his children with or without sauce?
4. When will I get back into creative writing and start outputting something more than a few half drunken sentences that deserve nothing more than burning?
5. What are the odds that when I leave for Europe in a few days, I’ll wind up having a panic attack on the plane and need sedating, because it’s just not natural for human beings to be in the air and God will surely reap his revenge for acts against nature and strike us out of the sky at any moment now, now, now, NOW?

July one

How to Destroy Angels are releasing their debut album on the first of July as a free download.

Get ready to do it.

The Space in Between

Although their first single is A Drowning, How to Destroy Angels’ first video is for another song…

Married life

Trent Reznor and wife Mariqueen Maandig, along with Atticus Ross, have formed a new band, How to Destroy Angels.

Their debut single, A Drowning, marks Reznor’s first musical release since the end of Nine Inch Nails.

Angels take their name from a 1984 single by Coil. They’re not as good as Coil, though. They’re not even as good as NIN. The lyrics aren’t a particularly strong spot, and the music… well it’s not bad. It’s very textural, like the poor cousin to NIN’s And All That Could Have Been. Around 2:30 things get interesting for a short while…

But then it just goes on… and on. And doesn’t develop in the way it seems to want to.  The song feels like it’s being held back.

Interesting enough, good for a rainy Sunday. But let’s hope their 6 track EP – coming soon – offers something with a little more bite.