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==Music==
==Music==
[[IGN]] called tracks "[[Discipline (Nine Inch Nails song)|Discipline]]" and "Echoplex" channeled "bits and pieces of [[Depeche Mode]], [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]], and even some [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]]."<ref name="IGN review">{{cite web
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The Slip (also known as Halo 27) is the seventh studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on May 5, 2008 via digital download on the official Nine Inch Nails website. The album was produced by Trent Reznor alongside Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder.

Release

Before the release, a single, "Discipline" was released freely on the official Nine Inch Nails site, and another song, "Echoplex", was released for free download from iLike . The ID3 tags of these MP3 files indicated that fans should visit the Nine Inch Nails website on May 5, 2008, where a free direct download link to the album in MP3 format, as well as torrents for lossless audio formats were posted. A message posted on the Nine Inch Nails website read:

"thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me" [1]

The Slip was released online on May 5, 2008 on the official Nine Inch Nails website. Like the previous Nine Inch Nails studio album Ghosts I–IV, The Slip is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial share alike license, in effect allowing anyone to use or rework the material for any non-commercial purpose, as long as credit is provided and the resulting work is released under an identical license. The website further expands

"we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc." [2]

Subsequently, social news aggregation websites, such as Digg featured news of the album's release as a front page story.[3] As with Ghosts I–IV and Year Zero, multi-track audio source files of the album were also made available at remix.nin.com.

Release versions

The digital download is available in five different audio formats. The lowest quality is VBR V0 MP3, followed by two lossless formats, FLAC and Apple Lossless. Also released were 24-bit, 96 kHz FLAC and WAV files. According to official Nine Inch Nails website, physical copies of the record will be released to stores around July 2008.[4]

As with Ghosts I-IV each album track features its own art. The ID3 tags for the digital download of The Slip state the album genre as (253). The lyrics for each track are embedded using ID3 tags, allowing for their viewing in supported media players.

Music

IGN commented that "Discipline" and "Echoplex" channeled "bits and pieces of Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, and even some Siouxsie and the Banshees."[5] Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times called The Slip "murkier and less catchy than the last couple of regular NIN albums", but that "Reznor blends the jarring sounds of the industrial rock genre ... with a terse, punk-like attack, bringing an insistent, sometimes claustrophobic feel to his scenarios of alienation".[6]

Critical reception

Critical response to The Slip has been generally positive, with the album received an average score of 75% based on 6 reviews from Metacritic.[7] IGN gave the album an 8.8 out of 10, stating "Simply put, The Slip is an amazing record".[5] The SputnikMusic review, while generally positive, described the album as "more like a collection of songs than an album. There is no real point to it".[8] The Toronto Star stated, The Slip is "hardly a throwaway, this seems a sincere gift to fans".[9] Pitchfork Media gave the album a 7.5 out of 10, observing "Reznor's unique capacity to commingle raging industrial bangers with ballads and ambient instrumental passages appears in its best form since The Downward Spiral, and here gains much of the focus and restraint that many remember used to be his calling card."[10]

Like with Ghosts I–IV, the album's unorthodox distribution methods also garnered the attention of various news agencies. An ABC News op ed questioned if consumers would "ever pay for an album again" stating "with NIN now in the game, its hard to argue that this is anything but a harbinger of the future".[11] Commenting on the distribution of the album, Dave LaGesse of U.S. News & World Report said "The move seems an even purer play than what Radiohead did with its most recent album, In Rainbows".[12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Trent Reznor

No.TitleLength
1."999,999"1:25
2."1,000,000"3:56
3."Letting You"3:49
4."Discipline"4:19
5."Echoplex"4:45
6."Head Down"4:55
7."Lights in the Sky"3:28
8."Corona Radiata"7:33
9."The Four of Us Are Dying"4:37
10."Demon Seed"4:59

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Halo 27". ninblogs.wordpress.com. 2008-05-05. Retrieved 2008-05-05. Unofficial Archive of nin.com
  2. ^ Van Buskirk, Eliot (2008-05-05). "Nine Inch Nails Gives Fans The Slip". Wired Blog Network. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  3. ^ "NIN Gives Away New Full Length Album - the slip". Digg. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  4. ^ "Nine Inch Nails offer free album". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  5. ^ a b Thompson, Ed (2008-05-07). "Trent Reznor serves up some free goodies". IGN. Retrieved 2008-05-09. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Richard, Cromelin (2008-05-07). "NIN's 'Slip' a free dive in dark waters". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-05-09. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "Nine Inch Nails: The Slip (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  8. ^ Bateman, Patrick (2008-05-07). "Nine Inch Nails - The Slip". SputnikMusic. Retrieved 2008-05-09. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Rayner, Ben (2008-05-11). "Ben Rayner's Reasons to Live . . ". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2008-05-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Harvey, Eric (2008-05-13). "Nine Inch Nails – The Slip". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2008-05-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Malone, Michael (2008-05-09). "Will We Ever Pay for an Album Again?". ABC News. Retrieved 2008-05-09. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ LaGesse, David (2008-05-06). "Nine Inch Nails' '100 Percent Free' Album". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2008-05-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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