Some one needs to tell Trent to lay off the black coffee, all this crazy album releasin' he's been doing is getting out of hand. First we get last year's Bush sucks concept record Year Zero, which for most NIN diehards would be enough to digest for a long time. But then this year we get the instrumental opus Ghosts I-IV, and another studio album, The Slip. And that's where things get interesting. Not only does the new record shake our industrial disco asses, but it was fuckin' free! Cheap!We've been hit or miss NIN fans since forever, we kinda didn't get The Downward Spiral when it dropped but we have always been hardcore The Fragile peeps, with that record holding a firm place in our top twenty.
We can say this new record has that right mix of all things we love about NIN, with the real and the fake drums balanced just right with moody basslines and just enough heavy guitar to satisfy. And at a brisk 44 minutes, can easily be listen to in its entirety while taking a dump.
We think that Reznor character is about as savvy as they come, and this latest move makes us like him even more. Just because of his generosity, we're going to go out and spend some serious cash money on all them NIN records we don't have. That would be the Heavy Duty thing to do.
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