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Originally posted by eggtweedyegg:
What is this Ghost album all about? Is it a free record we can download on the web? What does it sounds like? Why this album came out so quickly? Dork, help me

I just got my hands on it, actually.

It's a massive, epic release; four EPs and almost two hours of music, all of it instrumental and built from ten weeks of improvised studio sessions. Some of it is rather ambient, some of it is industrial, most of it is pretty much uniformly excellent, and a lot of it really pushes the boundaries of the artist's music. It doesn't sidestep the angst of his previous work, but decentralizes it, makes it as ambiguous as possible, and frees it from the lyrical confines that are often considered a drawback of Reznor's efforts. It's dark, at times abrasive, at times beautiful, and quite ambitious.

Frankly, while he has only openly endorsed the free downloading of one of the four EPs, I doubt Reznor would mind if you grabbed the full thing off a torrent site. And since it's self-released, I really doubt you should have any fear of being prosecuted.

How about The Slip. I wonder if he'll start releasing music bi-yearly... or more...

Anyway, this is really weird. But obviously beneficial to the music industry.

http://dl.nin.com/theslip/signup

Just downloaded it in mp3 format (VBR around 250kbps) but how fucking cool is it that it is offered in FLAC lossless, M4A lossless, and High definition WAVE 24/96 (better than CD quality), all for free and with no DRM. All it takes is to enter your email address. Radiohead can suck Reznors dick.

wow Reznor won't even let you give him any money.. well he's rich enough from Ghosts I-IV so I guess I shouldn't worry about supporting him anymore.

I adore and respect the way that The Slip was released.

It's a damn shame that it's by far his weakest studio album in an extremely long time. Decidedly unengaging and murkily produced, it's a mildly hookless mess without the sort of immediacy that made With Teeth and Year Zero worthwhile despite their shallowness. It's not bad -- far from it, it's a perfectly listenable album and I wouldn't consider any of it offensively poor, it's just... consistently not great. It never gets catchier or more tuneful than the good-but-not-superlative "Discipline," and though the ballad "Lights In The Sky" is an exceptional song, there's precious little else and even those are a bit too good at blending in.

It's growing on me but at the same time Reznor isn't playing to his strengths on The Slip. The production is literally his worst since Pretty Hate Machine, if not ever; it's not expansive or ambitious like The Fragile and it's too muddy and oomphless to equal his last two works, both of which have been minimally influenced and succeeded admirably in that respect. The collision of guitars, drums, noise and ambient sounds reaches a generic soup on The Slip that just doesn't sound that good.

It's decent. But nothing more.

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Originally posted by Dork:

It's decent. But nothing more.

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Maybe that's because you aren't listening to it in lossless WAVE

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Originally posted by La La Love Pixies:
Maybe that's because you aren't listening to it in lossless WAVE

What exactly makes you think I'm not?

all i know is that they make good music