Nine Inch Nails - "Not The Actual Events"

If you read my Best Of 2016 Post, you're probably wondering what the hell this post is doing here, as I clearly stated that post would be my last of the year.  I meant that then, which was before I learned of the existence of a new Nine Inch Nails project.  An EP to be specific, titled Not The Actual Events, which was released Friday, December 23.  Just in time for a Merry Christmas, just too late to make me an honest man.  So I listened to it, and now I'm writing about it.  Is it good?  Is it a Christmas dud?  Does it already, just a week later, invalidate my Top EPs of the Year ranking???  Oh Trent Reznor, why must you hurt me so?!?!

Deep Breath... New Nine Inch Nails Album...

So there’s a new Nine Inch Nails song called “Came Back Haunted” out, and it sounds like this:

I like the track but I don’t love it, and while I’m excited about the prospect of a new Nine Inch Nails album, I’m also slightly apprehensive.  I know it borders on blasphemy to doubt the great Trent Reznor, but hear me out.