‘The Slip’ is a well constructed, concise furthering of the ideas that brought Trent Reznor into the music scene. The monotonous blaring vocals that had begun to fade on Year Zero dissipate even further on this album. (I’m deliberately not naming tracks because I want you to find the ones I’m speaking of) This is shown most strongly with the thundering second track characterized by surprisingly upbeat drums, fuzzy distorted guitars, and the anxious quiet that is Reznor’s voice. The album really has to be embraced as a concept, though. It’s rare when I come across an album when I can enjoy every song individually, as well as the entire album as a conceptual whole. This band is slowly evolving into the depressed paranoid enraged potential that has defined it since the beginning. Check out his work on the song ‘The Rise and Inevitable Fall Of Niggy Tardust.’ To see some of Reznor’s work between ‘Ghosts I-IV’ and ‘The Slip’
No comments:
Post a Comment