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JennYNine Inch Nails - The Slip Album Review
August 11th 2008 19:58
Release date: July 22 2008
Genre: Industrial rock
Length: 43:45
Label: The Null Corporation – Halo 27
Although The Slip has been available online for quite some time (it was released in May), it was only released as a physical copy last week and reached the top 5 of U.S. Billboards' top rock albums. Nine Inch Nails' eighth major album release, The Slip is a short but good album that doesn't disappoint.
The record contains three ambient instrumentals – introduction track 999,999, seven minutes long Corona Radiata, and The Four of Us Dying which is tied to the final track Demon Seed. The instrumentals are pretty good, however, putting The Four of Us Are Dying right after Corona Radiata wasn't a great move in my opinion. Corona Radiata was a great way to cool off the listener before the two final tracks, having a song between both instrumentals would've made a better conclusion.
Listening to the tracks in order, it feels like the album goes down in intensity as songs go by. Second track 1,000,000 is a loud song with a nice instrumental. Unfortunately, the singing doesn't feel quite right. Letting You (third track) seems to be a rhyming exercise as the final word of every line rhymes with the next. In the first verse, final words rhymed with “black;” in the second, they rhymed with “feed” and “ahold;” and in the third, they rhymed with “hate.”
Things slow down after those two tracks with Discipline. The first single of the album has an upbeat instrumental but it is slightly less louder than the previous two songs. Echoplex's guitars are quieter but the song still keeps an upbeat tempo thanks to the drum machine. Lights in the Sky is a real ballad with only a piano accompanying Trent Reznor's voice. Finally, Head Down and Demon Seed are average songs. They're not bad but they're nothing special to write home about.
All in all, The Slip is nice album to have in your collection, I give it a 3.75/5. It sounds a lot like Depeche Mode and Celldweller. The best thing about it is that it's free to download the entire album on The Slip's website HERE.
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