Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Released: July 22, 2008
Despite looking like Professor Snape these days, there’s no denying that Trent Rexnor is something of a musical genius. Shame then, that The Slip is such a poor show.
Usually Nine Inch Nails records run like the soundtrack to a lapdance, but this is more like a librarian conference than a raunch bar. 1,000,000 shows signs of promise from the beginning but it sounds a little too polished and strained, not as grimy and filthy as it should be. From there, The Slip descends into the kind of dull background music usually expected from no-hope-in-hell alternative acts from Grimsby.
And so it is a good thing this was available from the Nine Inch Nails website for free for a while. At no point could this be considered worth parting with money for. The pace simply never picks up on this record. Trent Reznor must have written this from a nice bubble bath; there is none of the venom or the attitude of previous records. At some toward the end The Four Of Us Are Dying grabbed some attention for sounding like Radiohead, but then when you’re listening to Nine Inch Nails you probably don’t really want to find a lost Radiohead track.
The Finger was heading down for a brutal 3/10 until something of a diamond in the rough popped up with Head Down, at which point the record stopped feeling like a total waste of time for all of five minutes, before the drudge continued.
Rating: 4 out of 10 Beans
Tags: Industrial, Music
