What a spicy moment for nine -inch nails to be back on the way by playing its version of “I am afraid of the Americans” by David Bowie.
In the forum on Thursday, for the first show of a final stand of two nights of the Peel It Back Arena tour of the Rock Electronic Band, singer Trent Reznor did not explain the newly resonant subtext in Bowie's song (one that Reznor was referred to the Brit Halago and, in his music video, he played a Travis Bickle-Desque Creep).
But you could feel the forum with depleted entries with a new concern in that industrial earth song, while Reznor murmured Bowie's rugged lyrics about “Nobody needs anyone … Johnny wants P, and the cars … God is an American.”
At this point, who is not a little fear of Americans? Nine -inch nails thrive in the bat of the base human instinct and the fear of technology. Who better to help us get these feelings of disgust, anger and desolation at this time?
Now in his fourth decade as a group, Nine Inch Nails, the reznor duo and the Atticus Ross producer/keyboardist along with a closely celebrated tour band, does two difficulty things extraordinarily well.
For 15 years, Reznor and Ross have served as the eminent technocelectuals of Hollywood, with a couple of victories in the Oscar for their cinematographic scores, including David Fincher's eyelashes, “The Social Network” and the desire for Pixar's “soul”. They have an upcoming film music festival, Future Ruins, which will be the first of its kind and caliber in Los Angeles.
1. Robin Finck of nine -inch nails. 2. Trent reznor. 3. Fans react when nine -inch nails perform in the KIA forum. (Hon Wing Chiu / For Times)
But Thursday's forum program was a decadent reminder of how unpleasant and violent this band can also be.
When opening at the smaller stage B and in the round, Reznor took a piano race only “just where it belongs”, gradually adding to Ross, the key-teclist Alessandro Cortini and guitarist Robin Finck in a chillido “Piggy (nothing can stop now)”, before finally introducing drummer Josh Frees
Freese was a last minute addition to the tour band, after the group changed unexpectedly percussionists with Foo Fighters days before it unfolds. But Freese, a NIN veteran from the mid -2000s, has become a fans' favorite hero, reinforcing this alignment with Pure Rocker Muscle.
Back on the main stage, they reddled through “March of the Pigs” and launched with Fuzzbox Rot in “Reptile”. They came the stage in a gauze in “Copy of A”, which threw dozens of reznor shadows while we was paid and blown through a discouraged and dislodged modernity.
A second pass through stage B ready for the Rave gave a clue to how the next Coachella set of the band could be. “Nine -inch Noize”, which implies a continuous collaboration with his first match and collaborator, the music producer of the German club Boys Noize, took shape here under a blood monolithic light box. Reznor, Ross and Boys Noize accelerated a new single, “As Alive as To You Need Me To Be” of the movie “Tron: Ares”, but also renewed the eternal success “Closer” and “Come back hauntado” with a sizzling after the schedule.
It is impossible to imagine such a desperately sexual simple, as sacrilegally sacred as “closer” that it will never reach Hot 100 today. For Gen Z fans fascinated by Nails Gothic-eraotic aesthetics, he felt more transgressive than ever.
After Slashed Up faces “The Perfect Drug” and “The Hand That Feeds”, the band closed the set with an pair of opposite songs that covered the full range of what their audience is probably happening today. What viscerally satisfying to shout “address yourself as a hole, black as your soul / I prefer to die rather than give you control” since American life seems to unravel with every hour that passes.
But, of course, the band closed “Hurt.” Johnny Cash recorded his canonical version at 70, a cover now synonymous with a lion in winter looking at the grave. Only 10 years younger at 60, Reznor did it on Thursday with all the emotion strictly rolled and the intimate greatness of the child who wrote it. American life is pain; Nine -inch nails endures.
