Over the weekend, a new Nine Inch Nails song emerged, and that would seem to have been the warmup for this morning’s wee-hour release of the slip, a.k.a. Halo 27; the 10-track, 43-minute album is free to all takers as long as you give the NIN site’s robots an e-mail address. “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years–this one’s on me,” Reznor said in a parenthetical aside on his blog. Someone buy that man a protein shake! Details of the release after the jump.
• The album’s available in MP3, FLAC, Apple lossless, and WAV format.
• The FLAC, Apple lossless, and WAV versions of the album are being distributed via BitTorrent because of the huge file sizes, while the MP3 version is a plain old download.
• Downloading the MP3 version was pretty easy–no server crashes or endless “Please wait…” messages.
• The album’s protected by a Creative Commons license that allows remixers to remix, bloggers to blog, or people who troll arena bathrooms to leave it on USB drives in stalls.
• CD and vinyl versions of the album will be out in July, with “details to come.” Is it too much to hope for a 3-inch CD box set that’s free with a street address? Probably.
• The first person to comment on Reznor’s blog post announcing the album did, in fact, say “FIRST.” Ah, Internet.
the slip [dl.nin.com]
I like it, why are you making such a big deal about requiring an email address? Is that really a big deal?
@Tenno: *sings* My little hate machine, pretty little hate machine… [sg.geocities.com]
@Halfwit: I shant be bothered. And I never learned the taggish.
The first three tracks make “Discipline” & “Echoplex” seem like welcome respites. Reminds me of a harsher version of Witha-Teetha so far, which I really liked after I got used to it. Seeing a cornball title like “Demon Seed” worries me, but I hold out hope for the rest of the album.
If only he was wearing a slip on the cover. (He would have in 1994.)
Anyway, brilliant, great, etc. Of course, I’ll need to actually hear the music.
Well my link to download is still in file purgatory I guess, but i liked Discipline, and that Echoplex song is really good.
The simplicity reminds me of Pretty Little Hate Machine. So, I like it a lot so far.
@Tenno: Pretty Little Hate Machine
fix your tags