Track Listing 1. 999999 2. 1000000 3. Letting You 4. Discipline 5. Echoplex 6. Head Down 7. Lights In The Sky 8. Corona Radiate 9. Four Of Us Are Dying 10. Demon Seed
1. 1000000 (live rehearsal version/DVD) 2. Letting You (live rehearsal version/DVD) 3. Discipline (live rehearsal version/DVD) 4. Echoplex (live rehearsal version/DVD) 5. Head Down (live rehearsal version/DVD)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Alan Moulder, Atticus Ross, Trent R | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Plastic Head | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Mere months after Trent Reznor unveiled the 2008 instrumental collection GHOSTS I-IV online without warning, the Nine Inch Nails frontman issued another independent album out of the blue--a completely free studio album entitled THE SLIP. While not a radical departure from the fuzzed-out dystopia of YEAR ZERO, this 10-track outing does hark back to Reznor's earlier work (most notably THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL), as on the pounding "Discipline," which is tempered by a chiming keyboard melody, and the spare, piano-driven piece "Light in the Sky," a song that showcases the artist's brooding persona. Pithy and immediate, THE SLIP functions as a refreshing counterpoint to NIN's cumbersome 1999 double-disc outing, THE FRAGILE, and easily ranks as one of Trent Reznor's most satisfying endeavors.
Editorial Reviews 4 stars out of 5 -- For listeners who like their music loud and fierce and pissed off at just about everything, there aren't too many better options than THE SLIP.Spin (p.111) - 4 stars out of 5 -- THE SLIP is primo death funk with Reznor seething seductively about skies fading to black over grinding soundscapes that perfectly split the difference between computer-music clarity and live-band grit.Kerrang (Magazine) (p.48) - [C]omprised of 10 tracks that veer between the atmospheric and the downright funky, the discordant to the sublimely melodic.Blender (Magazine) (p.74) - 4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is industrial-strength Trent -- lithe, throbbing shame-disco, torrid guitar obliteration...and one revitalized 43-year-old auteur... Rolling Stone
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