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The Slip + DVD | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Label: The Null Corporation
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 197
Format: Cd+dvd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.4
Model: HALO 27 CD-LE
UPC: 766929934627
EAN: 0766929934627
ASIN: B001B71NOI
Release Date: July 28, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 999999 | | • | 1000000 | | • | Letting You | | • | Discipline | | • | Echoplex | | • | Head Down | | • | Lights In The Sky | | • | Corona Radiate | | • | Four Of Us Are Dying | | • | Demon Seed |
Disc 2
| • | 1000000 | | • | Letting You | | • | Discipline | | • | Echoplex | | • | Head Down |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Outstanding July 25, 2008
Big Jim (London, UK)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
OK I only went in for the free download, never having bothered much about NIN before, but I'll tell you what; The Reznor marketing ploy - if that is what it was, worked because on the back of this I have bought another 4 previous releases with more to follow.
Surprisingly (to me) mellow and tuneful but with a fair bit of "grunt" attached as well, this is quite simply an outstanding, mature and downright enjoyable release which you will listen to again and again. What have I been missing?
Classic June 21, 2008
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
19 out of 30 found this review helpful
Having finally kicked the drugs, Trent Reznor is clearly making up for lost time. "The Slip", his second album in as many months (and his eighth full length recording in the past three years - four albums, a remix set, a concert set, and two album length recordings for other artists), is clearly the work of a man driven.
Perhaps it's the fact that he's finally seen the end of a carefully managed, famine-like major label contract that rewarded mass exploitation and touring instead of creativity, and managed to recast himself as a modern-day Prince : wresting control of his destiny as a self-sufficient entity.
Last month, he released "Ghosts" - a 36 track, two hour instrumental epic experiment : this month he's followed it with "The Slip", a succinct 44 minute album fired by the kind of creativity and prolificitivty that recalls the glory days of the Sixties, where a new record by either The Who or The Stones or The Beatles would come out every few weeks. Bluntly put, it's not too much from a man who used to release a record every five years if we were lucky.
And so, "The Slip" is the seventh Nine Inch Nails album (or the fourteenth, including reissues, remix, and concert sets). And what you want to know is... is it any good?
In a word - yes. It's perhaps not quite as good as previous Nine Inch Nails records, but with a bar set so high previously, few, if any could match it. What "The Slip" is the sound of a man reborn, shaming lesser artists with his work-rate and creativity.
Firstly, lets highlight a few key points. Unlike previous Nine Inch Nails albums, which saw Reznor as a one man dictator of the group and performing every instrument with a paranoid despotism, "The Slip" is the first work of a band lineup of Nine Inch Nails : albeit, one where every song is written by Reznor, but one where other musicians are credited as performers, not mere contributors. It's shorter in length than any Nine Inch Nails album previous, and in many ways scanter. Thematically, the record eschews the usual Nine Inch Nails concept to collect nothing less - and nothing more - than ten new songs. If anything, "The Slip" is reminiscent of Bowies classic Berlin trilogy ; six vocal songs book ended by four instrumentals that all evoke an emotional resonance., aided and abetted by a perfectly chosen selection of musicians, including the unrecognised genius that is Guns'N'Roses guitarist Robin Finck.
It's not just the release schedule that is evocative of a lost age : "The Slip" is constructed to easily remind the owner of a vinyl LP : there's a distinct break between track 5 and 6 stylistically that reminds me of getting up, flipping the disc over, and dropping the needle onto side two. And, as the record drifts to the traditional low point of the last quarter, the album evolves slowly to a series of barely whispered vocals in "Lights In The Sky", before unfolding with "Corona Radiata" to evaporate to the ether with a strong set of instrumental passages that fiercely rebuke the old-standing `side two' lag of a vinyl Lp where you could hear a hardworking but creatively constipated band squeezing out songs with an eye for a fast-approaching release date. This is not contractual obligation but the work of someone who wants to, not someone who has to.
The songs here are subtle evolutions from the longstanding Nine Inch Nails template : songs aren't thought-out to the gazillionth permutation but products of an organic spring of inspiration. There are drawbacks - notably, single "Discipline" features a vocal mistakenly introduced (and hastily silenced) a bar too early due to a rushed mix, and the tracks fade-out is spliced too early : an inevitable result of a quick workrate. Lyrically, the album is a sparser, less complex affair than any previous Nine Inch Nails record, relying on a lyrical repetition that reveals multiple interpretations, on short and relatively straightforward imagery, on vocal melodies that are tonally short and instantly memorable at the same time : in many ways, "The Slip" is the nearest Nine Inch Nails have yet come to evoking the spirit of The Ramones with a guerilla record-and-release ethic and songs that seem to have been born fully formed.
There are certainly some classic NIN moments here : the dense production and organic sounds match the maelstrom of anything in their previous body of work, most notably in instant classics "Discipline" and "Echoplex", and many high points. "The Slip" sounds like the work of a profilic man mining a deep seam of rich creativity and still coming up with the goods.
Album of the year? June 29, 2008
Paulyjuve (Bristol, UK)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Following on from the superb 'With Teeth' and 'Year Zero', The Slip manages to continue in the same sound space. With stand-out tracks 'Discipline', 'Echoplex' and '1,000,000', Mr Reznor appears to have found a momentum that I hope continues. Buy this album even if you are one of the 1,400,000 that have already downloaded it. Great stuff!
NIN come up with the goods once again - great album! August 5, 2008
L. Green (London, UK)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Barcode: 0766929934627
I've seen a fair few reviews across the media referring to The Slip as 'Nine Inch Nail's most accesible album', and i a way i can see what they're getting at. The way the album was made available as a free download (a good way for new fans to try out some of the band's material), a catchy lead single in the form of Discipline and at only 10 tracks long, the final product comes across as a slick, modern and concise demonstation of Trent Reznor's intent.
Crucially though, it also explores a large number of facets of the NIN sound. As with the masterpiece Year Zero, The Slip begins with an eerie instrumental that builds to full volume over a minute and a half. As always with NIN material, each track is a carefully constructed soundscape, every element there for a reason and what i love most about The Slip is that it displays this element of the band at it's best while at the same time delivering some of the band's most instant material to date.
1,000,000 is the first example of this. With a pulsating, distorted hook and a classic angsty vocal from Trent, screeching siren-esque sounds add to the relentless energy and power that emmanates from tracks like this and Discipline, building on the template displayed in previous tracks like The Hand That Feeds and Survivalism but giving it a new rawness that only adds to the tracks' appeal.
Letting You takes this rawness to practiaclly bestial levels while Discipline is a slick number seeing NIN at their most commercial. It is songs like this that show the true genius of Trent Reznor, his skill at writing a song with as many hooks as this that worms its way into your mind and upon the first listen already sounds like a classic.
Echoplex is another highlight, a rhythmic guitar line packed over an infectious beat. We soon come to Lights In The Sky, which marks a change in the mood of the album. The first half is fast and relentless while the second half is slower, moody and altogether more atmospheric.
Lights In The Sky is a beuautiful track, just Trent and a piano. This is The Slip at it's most intimate, haunting and melancholy. This then leads into the 7 and a half minute slice of electronica that is Coron Radiata. These two tracks together bring to mind the song Another Version Of The Truth on Year Zero and while those new to the band might find this aspect quite daunting, the fact it is so open to interpretation only serves to intice you further into the music. The album is then nicely bookended by the sleazy grind of Demon Seed.
So, on the whole, i think Year Zero was a better album, but then, presented as a concept piece - it was meticulously planned whereas The Slip sounds like Trent Reznor, free from his old record label, exploring himself and the world around him with complete freedom. Year Zero presented a cold, frightening picture of an alternate future whereas The Slip is about the right now, the present, is full of an untamed fire and passion that sees NIN on top form. Whether you're new to the band and want to try some of their material out or whether you're a long-time fan, The Slip is well worth getting your hands on. The fact it's a limited edition of 250,000 copies and comes with a bonus DVD featuring live material is even more incentive to get this brilliant album.
The firs Slip Review June 18, 2008
Mr. J. S. Holley (Bournemouth, England)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
So, is this an extension of year zero or not? Lyrics would suggest so, feeling would suggest so.
If you like NIN then you will love this album. Its classic NIN, feeling, energy, exeitment, high emotion, low emotion but most of all a rewarding listn.
Tracks such as 'discipline' hark back to 'With Teeth' while '1,000,000' resemble 'Year Zero', and to top it off 'Corona Radiata' which is 'The Fragile' esque.
Brilliant, and definatly a grower.
Buy it.
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