Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "His latest, the five-song EP ADD VIOLENCE, contains all the aggression, abjection and self-loathing that solidified his position as alt-rock's Original Angster but with the measured restraint of a man his age."

Spin - "ADD VIOLENCE finds Reznor and Ross focusing back in on the windswept, nauseated ambience of their film-music work, with some quick bursts of Reznor's career-standard industrial maximalism. At its best moments, the EP is experimental and detail-oriented."