Slip Review

The Slip is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license. So, use it in wherever after you pick it up: podcasts, blogs, remixes, etc. Sweet deal. According to the NIN website, this “one” is on Reznor. Works for me. However, is this download worth it? Let’s take a look. Throughout this 45 minutes of brand-spanking-new NIN, you’re going to find a lot of sounds that are very reminiscent of With Teeth and Year Zero. There are many of the same riffs and electronic loops, similar lyrics, and definitely many of the themes from Year Zero. Is this a bad thing? Depends on what you want in a Nine Inch Nails album. I find a follow-up to The Slip's predecessor, not comforting, but satisfying.
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The pun is difficult to resist: The Slip is the second Nine Inch Nails album to arrive with free download availability, and the slip is what Trent Reznor has given to corporate parties who stand to profit from his music or the legal regulation of it. “This one’s on me,” writes Reznor on the NIN Web site under the download link. The record’s release was cryptically alluded to in a post to the band’s Web site on April 21 and in the metadata of two mp3 singles, "Discipline" and "Echoplex," released on April 22 and May 2, respectively.
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Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works. There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and it’s clear that NIN’s using the The Slip as a promo to build interest in its upcoming tour.
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