Originally Posted by
kleiner352
You don't go and make one of the greatest albums of the entire 90's with someone that encapsulated an entire time period for a certain type of young person in a certain type of the country at the time and not get connected to it forever. Trent himself has brought it up on his social media in the past year fondly and the discography page on the new site compliments it. He clearly doesn't mind recognizing what they achieved together. Petty drama may die but the music will last forever.
Maybe you should let it go, yeah?
And in relation to that, in an attempt to steer this orgy of a thread back to being on topic after even more drift, it's not surprising to me that Trent would look back and really enjoy ACSS in the past year, considering just how much Not the Actual Events seems to return to that 90's grimy and industrial aesthetic he was all about in his production style back then. The speed of Idea of You and the wall of filthy, dirt-stained sound of Burning Bright remind me a lot of his production work on songs like 1996 and Angel With the Scabbed Wings or The Reflecting God. It's amazing to hear him return to that nastier style of song production again after so many years of absconding it, almost as if to prove that he totally could have been doing it all along, that he never lost any real edge and he just never honestly wanted to until now. It makes the extremely-boring and annoyingly-common criticism of post-Fragile era material -- that Trent had somehow "gotten soft" and "ran out of ideas" -- all the more invalid.
In general, the production on the latter half of NTAE feels like an incredible progression of where TDS and ACSS left off. It's disgusting and dysmorphic and writhing beneath its own shit-stained skin and I love it for it.