Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Unfortunately released in 2007, on Interscope
A long-awaited album, marketed with tons of ‘alternative reality’ websites and pendrives containing mp3’s found after shows, etc. Sounds funny, but I get shivers from evil government theories. Not because I’m afraid of them – I simply find them boring and banal.
Now for the album.
It’s up on their myspace, so you can have a listen too. I had some expectations towards Year Zero but it turned out to be a total failure. It’s their (their? fuck no, his) sixth album officially, if you don’t count the numerous compilations, EPs and remix albums. NIN, basically, is a band which only changes lineups but not style, as everything revolves around Reznor and his so called vision of art.
Talking about art… The NIN myspace profile, proclaiming “art is resistance” shows how banal this thing became. Seriously, I can’t believe it’s interesting for Trent Reznor to groan about the same things for nearly twenty years constant.
Let’s just talk about the album instead.
It’s boooooooooooooring. As usual, it takes the NIN formula of noisy guitars and synths, heavy drums but lacks any kind of creativity or songwriting talent. The same song repeated 16 times. The last album, With Teeth, had four or five distinguishable (and good) songs and a mass of fillers, but Year Zero inherited only the fillers.
~ Final score: 2/10
……possibly the worst album of 2007?
April 14, 2007 at 6:15 pm |
Don’t be so hasty, Lil Bruv, it’s only April, we still have 8 months to go until the end of the year. I bet there’ll be a handful of candidates for the “worst album 2007″-prize. But your reviews rock!!! You made my sorry, spend-your-weekend-in-the-office day turn into fun and happiness :)))