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"Sunspots" is the tenth track on the 2005 release With Teeth.
Driven throughout by consistent drum and bass parts, Trent Reznor's layered vocals and muted guitars soon join. The higher, melodic verses are followed by lower pitched vocals in the pre-choruses, then higher again as the choruses are sung in falsetto. The choruses also feature a different chord progression played by bass and distorted guitars, similar to the choruses of "Love Is Not Enough." The second chorus and following bridge also feature a synthesizer lead that sounds very similar to a blender, perhaps the song's most notable characteristic. This sound was achieved using a device called the French Connection, which is a CV keyboard controller based on the Ondes Martenot. The song ends after two repeated choruses with different lyrics and 16 bars of the verse bassline and drums, which stop together just as they began.
"Sunspots" was not performed live until 2022, perhaps due to Reznor's fear of straining his voice too much, but eventually made its live debut on June 21 at Brixton Academy, London. It had also been performed at soundchecks and rehearsals with vocals. Starting 2013, "Sunspots" was interpolated into the outro of "Sanctified" by Alessandro Cortini.
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