well it’s better than waiting five years between releases…
I’m not complaining about this latest album or ghosts. Both are good pieces of work.
Fucking hell this guy doesn’t waste any time pupming out albums?!!
Yeah he keeps this up he might even begin to catch up to Justin Broad Rick himself in terms of prolific-ness.
I’m enjoying this more than anything he’s done since Spiral.
I’m enjoying this more than anything he’s done since Spiral.
Same here. The Fragile was incredibly disappointing for me and everything since then has also been. This album, though, is back on track.
i wasnt expecting much based on discipline, but the album itself indeed is turning out better than i hoped. even discipline sounds good when it is accompanied by the other tracks.
good effort.
i see it as having a somewhat punk sound, more minimal and bare than most of his stuff. or maybe its just the album cover art that is swaying me…
The Fragile could have been excellent had he just cut the fat off. I’m glad he didn’t smash this together with Ghosts which is essentially just some bloated space jam.
I’ve listened to it 2x completely through, and I really like it. I didn’t want to any instrumentals on it (unless it sounded like Just Like You Imagined) because of ghosts just being released, but they actually work well with the rest of it. Also, I think Echoplex is a much better song when listened to in the context of the album. Lights in the Sky is fantastic.
i wasnt expecting much based on discipline, but the album itself indeed is turning out better than i hoped. even discipline sounds good when it is accompanied by the other tracks.
good effort.
i see it as having a somewhat punk sound, more minimal and bare than most of his stuff. or maybe its just the album cover art that is swaying me…
That’s almost exactly how I see it. Hearing Discipline and Echoplex first was kind of deceiving. I hear those tracks and automatically assume the album will be like WT, but when hearing the entire thing, it’s proven entirely wrong. And the more I listen to it, the more i’m enjoying it. I prefer this over WT anyday, but i’ve never been much of a fan of that album so I might be a little biased. Some of the tracks seem to wander, I think. But other than that, it is a pretty solid, decent album. Thumbs up.
New album in two months? j/k 
I could very used to this idea of Trent just giving music to us for free.
Its not too bad, not too bad at all. Its early days yet but im liking it better than YZ (far too repetitive) and WT (mediocre rock album). Some fine tunes, namely ‘1,000,000’, ‘Echoplex’ and ‘Head Down’. You can hear a little bit of Ghosts and YZ in some of the tracks like ‘Lights in the Sky’. ‘The Four of us are Dying’ is a fine tune and would have been a better closer than ‘Demon Seed’ which along with ‘Letting You’ are the lowpoints of the album; far too boring and not enough effort put into them.
I think if he cut the 2 weak songs and maybe 999,999 it would have been better as an EP, like Broken.
Still, he gave it to us for free so im not complaining.
The more I hear it, Lights in the Sky is an amazing song. If I had to pick favorites, i’d prolly go with:
1,000,000
Letting You
Heads Down
Lights in the Sky
Whole album is solid and i’m still listening to it almost non-stop since I got it. It’s very good and different, but also maintains some of that older nin vibe (alas discipline, which reminds me a lot of Only).
the album cover reminds me of this somehow:
onviously not the same image but the tone is kinda similar to my eyes.
This is obviously a collection of reworked left-overs from The Fragile, With Teeth and Year Zero. Thought the same about Ghosts.
I remember reading an interview with Reznor just before With Teeth came out, he was saying he had about 80 songs recorded.
Not that that’s a bad thing, especially when the results are this good.
This shits all over Year Zero, which I’ve kind of gone off of. I got wrapped up in the whole concept thing with that and the more I listen to it the more I realise it’s not a very good album, not a bad album, mind.
With Teeth is great, especially when you leave Getting Smaller and The Collector out when you put it on your MP3 player. But again, pales along side The Slip.
The Downward Spiral and The Fragile however are epic classics that can’t be touched by anything IMO.
Head Down and Demon Seed are my faves.
Loving the sense of deja vu I get from Demon Seed, like it’s made up of sections from the other songs or something. Can’t quite but my finger on it.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/50566-the-slip
Wow, Pitchfork has something nice to say about Trent, who’d a thunk?