The Slip (Not The Clap)
So yeah, late last night, only a few months after releasing an expansive instrumental double album for just a $5 download, nine inch nails releases a new 10-track/43 min album completely for free. Not instrumentals this time, but a more standard album called "the slip" and available for download in many different audio formats. And it ain't a bad album either. Don't really know where this one falls sonically or thematically in relation to other releases, it's a somewhat hard to classify album. Tracks are as follows:- 999,999
- 1,000,000
- letting you
- discipline
- echoplex
- head down
- lights in the sky
- corona radiata
- the four of us are dying
- demon seed
"Head Down" is immediately my favorite of the album. Doesn't really sound like anything else I have heard by nin, the chorus is warm lush all while glitch and distortion rule the background. "Lights in the Sky" is your nin-standard quiet song that every album seems to have. "Corona Radiata" and "The Four of Us Are Dying" are instrumentals that sounds like they would be at home on The Fragile, aside from the layers, note the signature guitar stylings. The last track, "Demon Seed" is another one that is hard to place, some of the synth sounds are reminiscent of the Reznor-produced Saul Williams album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, regardless, it's probably my second favorite song on the album and has some unique lyrical progression.
I also find it interesting that I noted a trend on nine inch nails discussion boards where fans were wishing they could have the option to pay for this release. Like some sort of strange Stockholm's syndrome, once released from the captivity of the status quo for record releases, they try to go running back to something more familiar.
Below I have set up a playlist with the entire album, so you can just go ahead and check it out now if you like:
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