The most remarkable thing about this year’s Pazz & Jop poll results is how unremarkable they are

‘A kind of gorging, gulping, transporting experience of being lifted out of my life: That’s what I’m looking for as a reader, and that’s what I hope to provide as a writer’

With our political norms crumbling, our social fabric fraying, and our planet literally on fire, the Nine Inch Nails mastermind is back to make sense of it all