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Track Listing
1. 999,999
2. 1,000,000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. Echoplex
6. Head Down
7. Lights In The Sky
8. Corona Radiate
9. Four Of Us Are Dying, The
10. Demon Seed
Album Notes
Composer: Trent Reznor.
Nine Inch Nails: Alessandro Cortini, Robin Fink, Josh Freese, Trent Reznor.
Programmer: Atticus Ross.
Audio Mixer: Alan Moulder.
Audio Remasterer: Brian Gardner.
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.
Industry Reviews
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...
Ranked #18 in Kerrang's Best Albums Of The Year 2008 -- Continually disturbing, off-kilter, slightly creepy genius, but genius nonetheless.
[C]omprised of 10 tracks that veer between the atmospheric and the downright funky, the discordant to the sublimely melodic.
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.
Ranked #37 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- [F]illed with granite funk and stark-naked confessions.
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.
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