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Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

Trent Reznor is as prolific an artist as any out there.....outside of Ani Difranco who seems to put out an album for every season (turn, turn, turn.  With the Internet's low barrier to entry  (if you have a computer and a MySpace account, you at least have "Tom" as a virtual friend/fan), distribution of music has never been easier.  Computer savvy artists no longer have to focus on the long coveted "record deal" to make it big and can now focus on churning out artistically satisfying music in the comforts of their parent's basement.

At the front of this movement are musicians such as Reznor, who embrace the Web and provide fans with the ability to download complete albums of work before they are released on the quickly fading CD medium.  Heck, "The Slip" was available for free on the NIN website months before it actually hit the shelves. 

Limited to a total of 10 tracks (3 of which are instrumentals), "The Slip" feels like a snack rather than a main course. Luckily for fans, it is more like a package of "Suzi Qs" than an orange and a glass of ice water. Fans of Rezonor's unique industrial blend of distortion (at times it sounds like somebody mic'd a vacuum cleaner playing through a blown speaker) and syncopated 
beats will find plenty to satisfy. 

Check out:

1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline 
Head Down

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