Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails

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Industrial - StudioRecording - 1 CD(s) - Label: Island - Distributor: Universal Music - Released: 16/04/2007 - 602517324220 more

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... With Year Zero, coming just two years after With Teeth, Nine Inch Nails have achieved a spectacular return to form, going back to the Industrial roots of The Downward Spiral but combining it with more modern break beats and undeniably hooky melodies. Full marks to the marketing team behind ... Read review





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The future's not bright
A review by bubblegum_princess on Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails
June 26th, 2009


Author's product rating:   

Originality Groundbreaking 
Lyrics Thought-provoking 
Quality and consistency of tracks Flawless 
How does it compare to the artist's other releases Good 
Value for Money Good 

Advantages: Great concept, great melodies, a real return to form
Disadvantages: None

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

Full review

I think it's fair to say that every artist seems to have a creative peak and often fail to quite recapture the magic with subsequent albums. For me Nine Inch Nails reached that peak with 1994's The Downward Spiral - although I loved The Fragile, With Teeth was undoubtedly a big disappointment and seemed to indicate a change in direction towards a more poppy sound. With Year Zero, coming just two years after With Teeth, Nine Inch Nails have achieved a spectacular return to form, going back to the Industrial roots of The Downward Spiral but combining it with more modern break beats and undeniably hooky melodies.

Full marks to the marketing team behind this, as the unique campaign that ran ahead of the launch of this album made it one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2007. Like all of the best albums, Year Zero is a concept album, set in the year 2020 in a dystopian, apocalyptic, Orwellian world - Los Angeles has been destroyed by a nuclear terrorist attack, the government are adding drugs to the water supply supposedly to protect against bio-terrorism but there are indications that this may be a more sinister method of population control religious fundamentalists are at war and a resistance movement is gathering. Let's just say the future is not bright. What was really clever about the marketing was that they slowly leaked out info about this 'future world' on USB drives left in toilet stalls as NIN toured Europe, so fans were slowly drip fed this information, creating a scavenger hunt type of alternative reality game. From full tracks leaked, to spoof websites with news stories, even to the extent of images that could only be revealed through studying the spectrograph of a track, it was a fantastically complex puzzle that went beyond a marketing gimmick - the game and putting all of these clues together is the art form, the album simply comes out of it.

Despite being set in the future it's clear that this album has been strongly influenced by the actions of the Bush Administration and America's role in the Iraq war. 'Capital G' is a thinly veiled attack on the man himself - "Well I used to stand for something, Now I'm on my hands and knees, Trading in my God for this one, And he signs his name with a Capital G". From the moment the album launches into the opening track, 'HYPERPOWER!', it's clear that the NIN industrial soundscape is back on form, with frenetic drum beats which lie beneath carefully choreographed beeps, buzzing, screams, and synths. "Vessel", "My Violent Heart" and "The Great Destroyer" all capture the aggressive industrial beats that are NIN's signature, "The Great Destroyer" breaking down into a fantastic solo of bleeps and static that wouldn't be out of place on an Aphex Twin album. "Me, I'm Not" employs poet and hip hop artist Saul Williams and has a creepy laid back, almost mechanical feel of something building slowly - very reminiscent of my favourite track from The Downward Spiral, "The Becoming". Those after more of the guitar based tracks which dominated With Teeth will perhaps be disappointed with Year Zero - it's a more synth based sound, more akin to a blend between The Downward Spiral's aggressive beats and The Fragile's painstakingly intricate soundscapes. But creeping in there is a more trip hop / electronica feel to things which brings the sound bang up to date. This sound comes to the forefront in "My Violent Heart", one of the first leaked tracks from the album, with Reznor quasi rapping over a decidedly funky bass and "God Given", whose intro has a distinctly Timbaland feel.

But what really drives the album is the catchiness of the melodies - "Survivalism" and "Capital G" are natural singles with singalong choruses, but there are moments of real melodic beauty in this album - the haunting piano in "Another Version of the Truth" and the closing track "Zero Sum" which builds to a poignant climax and is Year Zero's equivalent of "Hurt" or "Something I can Never Have". Trent's voice is good as ever, slightly raspy, sarcastic and biting.

Lyrically much of the album is a little clichéd (the line "Can't seem to shut her legs Our mother nature is a w**e" I thought was particularly cringey), but that for me is what makes NIN and actually the straightforward nature of the lyrics serves to make the message all the more clear and the overall effect is very thought provoking. The album's closing thought is particularly well put and very poignant:

Shame on us
Doomed from the start
May god have mercy
On our dirty little hearts
Shame on us
For all we have done
And all we ever were
Just zeros and ones

This album is a must for all NIN fans - the best album since The Downward Spiral, for me it combines the best aspects of every NIN album - the aggressive industrial sound of The Downward Spiral, the beautiful soundscapes of The Fragile, and the poppy melodies of With Teeth. There isn't a weak track on the album. It's not an album that you'll want to dip into - it requires a full listen every time. Absorbing, vivid and a fantastic return to form. Highly recommended. 

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Another Version of the Truth
Review of Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails by Jeeves42

Advantages: Meaningful and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: Not for everyone

This is the first nine inch nails album that I have listened to and I was thouroughly impressed with their unique style of industrial metal. I found it very difficult to listen to at first, since I am used to listening to more melodic, faster metal and this came as a bit of a shock, as I wasn't expecting this style of music. At first, my favourite songs were "The Beginning of the End" and "Survivalism". Now, the songs that I more frequently listen ...
...of the songs contain a sort of white noise, which put me off at first but then I got used to it and now it sets a very disturbing mood, to say the least. Some of the instruments are difficult to make out in songs, which will put some people off because of the obscurity of having music which doesn't seem to be music at all. Its difficult to explain, but after a while, you get the feel of it and its messages of humanity and human struggle ring true. ... Read review

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Review of Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails by smudge33

Advantages: the good tracks are amazing
Disadvantages: has some letdownes in it

I have been a ninei nch nails fan science my friend neil morrisey told me about them. i went to hmv andgo everyday is egzaclery the same ep. i suddnley fell in love with the band, they are amazing. trent is in my opinion the einstine of industriel music. if there is anyone out there who is looking to buy any cds then i would recomend them to rundown to thnearest cd shop and get it. the first nine inch nails album i owned was with teeth. at first ... Read review

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Product details

Title: Year Zero

Performer: Nine Inch Nails

Genre: Rock & Pop

Sub Genre: Industrial

Release Date: 16/04/2007

Recomended Retail Price: 16.99 GBP

Original Release Year: 2007

Label / Distributor: Island / Universal Music

Engineer: Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross; Alan Mo

Producer: Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross

Pieces in Set: 1

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Performer

EAN: 602517324220

Catalogue Number: 1732422

Additional notes

Album Notes: Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor.
On his 2007 full-length studio follow-up to WITH TEETH, Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor steps away from the relatively straight-ahead rock aesthetic of that record, opting instead for an intentionally abrasive sound lined with sharp shards of noise and static. Tied together by an enigmatic, X-FILES-like concept involving an apocalyptic scenario, YEAR ZERO is marked by tell-tale tracks such as "Survivalism," a fierce number that harkens back to THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL, and "In This Twilight," a bleak, distortion-filled song.
Reportedly influenced by the Bomb Squad's spare, hard-hitting production on vintage Public Enemy releases (a point driven home by the stark, stuttering "My Violent Heart"), ZERO also reveals that Reznor picked up a few experimental tricks from tour-mates TV on the Radio, as best exemplified by the guitar squalls of the aforementioned "Survivalism." Less personal and more cinematic than preceding outings, YEAR ZERO is arguably NIN's least-accessible album, and proves that Reznor hasn't abandoned his SPIRAL-era post as a sonic agitator who has infiltrated the mainstream.

Album Reviews: Entertainment Weekly (p.61) - "[H]e drives his messages home with the whisper-to-a-scream vocal melodrama and the most chaotically catchy tunes he and his arsenal of machines can generate."
Alternative Press (p.158) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "For YEAR ZERO, Nine Inch Nails chairman Trent Reznor sets his machinery on 'kill' and points it toward authority and herd mentality, dicing up guitars and laptops synths like an Enron paper trail."

Titles on disc 1

1.: Hyperpower

2.: Beginning Of The End

3.: Survivalism

4.: Good Soldier

5.: Vessel

6.: Me I'm Not

7.: Capital G

8.: My Violent Heart

9.: Warning

10.: God Given

11.: Meet Your Master

12.: Greater Good

13.: Great Destroyer

14.: Another Version Of The Truth

15.: In This Twilight

16.: Zero Sum

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