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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]
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
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.