ADD VIOLENCE

The second part of a triptych that began with Not The Actual Events and concluded with Bad Witch, Add Violence slams itself bodily against two different musical extremes of Nine Inch Nails - slickly delivered electro-industrial with enough hooks and instant catchiness to verge on industrial pop on the one hand, loud, aggressive industrial rock confrontation on the other.

The Background World closes off with an increasingly harsh and confrontational repetition of its closing movements, which rather strikes me (considering the song title) as Trent Reznor slightly rebelling against his newfound reputation as a great soundtrack dude; he's insisting here that his music isn't something to just fade into the background but has a real, vibrant purpose to it which deserves to be in the foreground too, and seems to intend the outro to the track as a means of shaking the listener out of whatever they are doing with Add Violence in the background and making them pay attention to it.

Joke's on him, though - these rather light compositions are, aside from that, perfect background music for electro- industrial fans. Sorry, Trent.