reminicsent of "The Downward Spiral" (the song, not the album) from their last full-length release. It starts out with some weird little sound effects, whispered lyrics and a muffled drumbeat before things build frantically and reach peaks in an all-out explosion of sound. The next track "Into the Void," has echoes of "Closer" in its funky beat, thick keyboard line and screamed vocals. I think I smell the next single.

The fourth track goes into a little more interesting territory, even though it's an instrumental. The beginning is built around some nice ambient noises and simple stringed instruments, as well as the gentle plucking of an acoustic guitar. At one point it breaks off into a very quiet bridge before crunching down again in a new attack of distortion.another excellent instrumental (the afformentioned "Ripe With Decay") that somehow manages to pull together stringed instruments, a piano, an acoustic guitar, and lots of foreboding noise and make it sound very cool.

The second disc opens with "Somewhat Damaged" and the first single "The Day The World Went Away" before dropping off into the minimal, piano-driven "The Frail." The closing bits of the last track then lead right into the huge, ballad-like "The Wretched." It's one of those quiet/loud tracks that blows the lid off things and beckons you to sing along. Although I'm sure it wasn't intended, this loud, sing-along chorus type of song continues with "We're In This Together" and "The Fragile." Both of the tracks start out fairly quietly, but build into arm-pumping choruses with multiple