- industrial, industrial rock, alternative rock, rock
- 104 min
- 23 tracks
- Interscope Records
The Fragile is the third studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as a triple album by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on September 21, 1999. It was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and the English producer Alan Moulder, a longtime Reznor collaborator. It was recorded throughout 1997 to 1999 in New Orleans.
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Character
Grave, character-led, contemporary and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Christgau's Consumer GuideB
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- NME5/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Spin9/10
- USA Today4/4 ★
- Pitchfork6.6/10
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Tracks
- 1Somewhat Damaged4:32
- 2The Day the World Went Away4:34
- 3The Frail1:54
- 4The Wretched5:26
- 5We’re in This Together7:16
- 6The Fragile4:35
- 7Just Like You Imagined3:50
- 8Even Deeper5:48
- 9Pilgrimage3:32
- 10No, You Don’t3:36
- 11La Mer4:38
- 12The Great Below5:17
- 1The Way Out Is Through4:17
- 2Into the Void4:49
- 3Where Is Everybody?5:40
- 4The Mark Has Been Made5:15
- 5Please3:31
- 6Starfuckers, Inc.5:00
- 7Complication2:31
- 8I’m Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally4:13
- 9The Big Come Down4:13
- 10Underneath It All2:46
- 11Ripe (With Decay)6:34
23 tracks, 104 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Nine Inch Nails
- Label
- Interscope Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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