Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (completely free new album)

trent reznor. what a guy!

holy dick, i'm excited. downloading and uploading to ipod and listening on artificially extended morning commute, accompanied by strong black coffee. and RAGE. oh yes.

Just listening to this now. Production's pretty rough but it isnt too bad!

lol remember when there were epic 5-year gaps between the release of NIN albums?

There's some nice ambient bits on here. They're much better than some of the NIN by numbers earlier on in the album.

judging by the included artwork i'm guessing this is the sequel to year zero?

I wish he'd been this prolific when I was 18 and nin's biggest fan.

judging by the included artwork i'm guessing this is the sequel to year zero?

Sonically it's a closer relative of With Teeth, so far.

Going the torrent route for the higher-quality stuff seems v. wise.

Funny that after I gave NIN.com my e-mail address for the Ghosts I-IV download, they e-mailed me yesterday about pre-sale tickets for the upcoming tour, but have yet to e-mail about the new friggin' album. I liked the instrumental album and what I've heard off this so far ("Discipline" and "Echoplex") way more than Year Zero, so I'm looking forward to getting home and checking it out.

Lights in the Sky is the prettiest song he's ever written. Pretty in a dark, sombre way, of course, like a hot Goth chick.

ysi?

You can't ysi hot goth chicks!

Give it time.

The ambient track on this > anything on Ghosts

One of these days I need to ysi the awesomeness that is "Goth Booty"

Dan you have a DJ name.

Sent them my email address three hours ago but haven't gotten my download link. Frownyface.

Yeah, took a while before I got mine too, but not hours. If you're too impatient, maybe retry?

My verdict after two listens in solid, but mostly unspectacular. Maybe it's a grower, and the relative lack of showy stuff is a sign of maturity and subtlety. Or maybe he's getting low on ideas.

After one listen I like it better than Awitha Teetha - it's also a nice way to convince people to get tickets to the tour: it won't be all instrumental Ghosts tracks (if at all)

if deerhunter were opening on the nj date, instead of the craptastic does it offend you yeah, i would definitely go.

Almost through with my first listen, and it's definitely part of the WT/YZ sonic rut, but I don't mind that as I like those two albums better than anything that came before them. (Yes, you read that correctly.) I saw him on the Fragile 2.0 tour (the NYC show where Manson came out to sing "Starfuckers Inc.") so won't be attending the tour, but these new songs should kick pretty hard live.

Is this really the first NIN studio release with Robin Finck, even though he's been with them (live) since 1994?

waiting to get home so I can download this

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Robin left the band a bit after the Fragility tour, he's been with Guns 'n Roses ever since

And chap OTM up there

Robin left the band a bit after the Fragility tour, he's been with Guns 'n Roses ever since

Oh?

Plus some followup.

Forgot to mention that.

I still haven't listened to Ghosts so this will have to wait a bit, though

His lyrics are definitely improving - they're still not great, but there are no glaring clunkers here to distract from the music. Maybe he's getting less solipsistic in his old age.

Okay that first line:

In an unusual nod to the popularity of free music online...

Like this OK. really liked the last one. in case it even needs to be said, NIN still very, very good live. saw them on the Teeth tour. i didn't even like that record, but man-o-man. opened with "Wish." 17 year-old inside me freaked the fuck out.

http://angryape.com/news/2008/05/02/carl-barat-says-coldplays-free-song-idea-harms-the-industry

;_;

Dear Carl Barat,

Your WAAAAHmbulance is on its way.

I agree that this should lead to discussion about the state of the music industry, but coming from him & like this it just sounds like "damn, why did I use all my royalties on drugs instead of saving them?" :-/

Hasn't George Michael been doing something similar to this for like the best part of a decade?

So giving it a listen here -- solid, not stellar. I like Ghosts I-IV more as an overall effort on first blush but it's a good extension of his recent work otherwise with a couple of really good moments. The short length almost makes it feel like an EP, I'm so used to the sprawling releases otherwise!

I prefer Ghosts to most of The Slip, but thats because I've always been way more of a fan of Trent's melancholy, sparse instrumental work. IOW, when he shuts up, he's awesome. So the last track on the Slip is fantastic. The rest, I'm ambivalent - its ok but nothing amazing.

And coming in under the shadow of the Portishead album, I'm a little underwhelmed.

Lots of "Worth every penny!" reviews on the way, I bet.

verdict, after two listens: not as good as "with teeth," better than "year zero." "ghosts" is prettier, of course. overall, not bad! good tracks are awesome, meh tracks are, um, meh. i kind of want a sprawling, big deal album too, ned. and i must admit, i'm a sucker for nin-by-numbers rage-ups. i love track three.

echoplex = trents been listening to QOTSA

liking it.

i actually havent heard anything by NIN since 'the fragile'when i was a freshman in college with different tastes, but i am pleasantly suprised at how much i enjoyed this on the first listen. Perhaps, i need to check out the last three albums too.

With Teeth and Year Zero in particular have a fair bit in common with this record, so you'd probably enjoy them, yeah.

this is exciting!

i downloaded this the other day and then forgot about it. that's what happens when you subvert the traditional market model, reznor.

anyway. i'll listen tonight, hopefully.

i downloaded this the other day and then forgot about it.

me too ^

this is great. i've paid little attention to nin for years: thank you, ILM.

nice touch: each track has different artwork. and lyrics attached.

carl-barat-says-coldplays-free-song-idea-harms-the-industry?

And what kind of leather-clad rock'n'fuckin'roll rebel are you, Carl, when _Coldplay_ are doing your job for you?

Do you sue the word 'ponce' or 'wuss' in America?

Free five track EP introducing the support bands: http://dl.nin.com/lightsinthesky/signup

The support acts are "a place to bury strangers, does it offend you, yeah?, crystal castles, deerhunter"

Very wise Trent, always choose rubbish bands to support you, so you sound good.

The Slip is great by the way. It sounds sloppy and free.

APTBS is pretty good if you don't know JAMC

I'm quite impressed by the included artwork, too

I'm kind of over The Slip already, there doesn't seem to be as much to get your teeth into as previous releases, and it's the first of his albums that doesn't really have a clearly defined identity of its own.

APTBS is pretty good even if you love JAMC -- they add an '80s Wax Trax industrial/noise aesthetic to the stew, plus the songs are much more aggressive/propulsive than Psychocandy, which might as well be Beach Boys tracks (not that I'm complaining, mind you).

I'm kind of over The Slip already, there doesn't seem to be as much to get your teeth into as previous releases, and it's the first of his albums that doesn't really have a clearly defined identity of its own.

-- chap, Thursday, June 5, 2008 6:12 PM (2 hours ago)

I don't know about that. There seems to be a recurring theme of isolation. While most NIN songs come from an abject place, the songs on The Slip seem more like they were written by a man alone than a man dissatisfied with society or anything else.

http://www.nin.com

Clever, again. Free download remains available, but the CD edition will include a DVD with live versions...