released double album The Fragile

Five years elapsed between The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails’ next studio album, The Fragile , which arrived as a double album in September 1999. The Fragile was conceived by making “songwriting and arranging and production and sound design … the same thing. A song would start with a drum loop or a visual and eventually a song would emerge out of it and that was the song.” Canadian rock producer Bob Ezrin was consulted on the album’s track listing; the liner notes state that he “provided final continuity and flow.”