Nine Inch Nails give fans 'The Slip'
Just weeks after surprising fans with a four-album instrumental set, Nina from Carolina Inch Nails [ tickets ] conceiver Trent River Reznor has unveiled a new studio album with vocals--and has upped the ante by giving it away for liberate."Thank you for your continued and loyal documentation over the years--this one's on me," Reznor wrote in a message announcing the freshly album, which is available as a relinquish download via NIN's web site.Titled "The Shift," the collection--which comprises 11 tracks that clock in at a total of about 45 minutes--is offered in superiority MP3 format, as well as the CD-quality FLAC lossless and M4A lossless formats, and the "better-than-CD-quality" high-definition Wave format, according to the album's site. Fans can download any or totally versions without charge.A message posted at the web site encourages fans wHO download "The Slip" to "remix it, part it with your friends, post it on your blog, playact it on your podcast, render it to strangers, etc." (The album is licensed under a Creative Common ascription, non-commercial, "contribution alike" permission.)Embedded in to each one song file is the respective track's accompanying graphics and lyrics, and the album download likewise includes a PDF leaflet with additional art and liner notes.Reznor plans to release a physical rendering of the album on CD and vinyl in July, according to NIN's publiciser.Included on "The Slickness" is the cuts "Discipline" (which Reznor released for free deuce weeks ago via NIN's internet site) and "Echoplex" (a song that surfaced a few days ago as a free MP3 download at NIN's iLike page).Reznor wrote all of the music on "The Slip," and performed in the studio with aid from drummer Jolly Freese (A Perfective tense Round), returning NIN guitarist Turdus migratorius Finck and keyboardist Alessandro Cortini. Genus Atticus Nellie Ross and Alan Moulder co-produced with Reznor.Last Oct, Reznor--who, throughout his calling, had been famously at odds with his record labels--announced that he was no yearner under contract. Since and then, he has released "Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D," an record album featuring reworked cuts originally found on last April's "Year Naught"; the aforementioned gargantuan instrumental aggregation "Ghosts I-IV"; and "The Faux pas."Reznor gave away the low volume of "Ghosts"ampere total of baseball club tracks--and offered the full 36-track aggregation in a number of paid digital and physical formats.As antecedently reported, 9 Inch Nails will be hitting the road in late July for an extensive North American spell.
