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Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
| Rollingstone |
| "Is my viciousness/losing ground, ground, ground, ground, ground?" croaks Trent Reznor on "Discipline," the propulsive new single from Nine Inch Nails' The Slip. It's a question more than a few rock stars are asking themselves these days. Pop divas and hip-hop producers command the musical zeitgeist. The iPod long ago made albums, those supreme rock-era icons, seem as dowdy as Victorian whalebone skirts. In these dire times, what's an old-fashioned Dionysian with a guitar and a messiah complex to do to stay relevant?...full text |
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| Adequacy |
| So, imagine my excitement when I visited the official Nine Inch Nails site on the 5th May to find a new, totally free full-length record available for download. It comes with Trent Reznor's message: "thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me". Well, as someone who has consistently purchased pretty much everything Reznor's ever brought out, the price tag attached to The Slip would have made little difference to whether it ended up in my CD collection - but, since I'm a recently graduated student, who hasn't yet found a job, I'm not exactly complaining. To be honest though, it's a pretty awesome 'thank you', considering that, for me personally, it contains some of the best Nine Inch Nails material I've ever heard....full text |
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| Pitchforkmedia |
| Remember how frustrating it was when Nine Inch Nails would make us wait four to six years between albums? That trend, it appears, has entered the rearview mirror stage, along with the label messes and rehab stints that helped cause those interminable gaps. Consider the new math after The Slip hit hard drives as a free download last Monday: over the last three years, Trent Reznor's released as many full-length records of new material (four) as he did during the first decade of his recorded existence. Since Pretty Hate Machine, the concept behind Reznor's work with Nine Inch Nails has been blunt and straightforward: dystopian techno-metal forged from the fusion of man and machine. ...full text |
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