The Slip album

Trent Reznor is such a nice guy. He’s released a new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, for free from the NIN website. So go get it!

I’ve been listening to it for a week or so now and the songs have definately grown on me, though you’d probably have to be a fan to appreciate it. Highlight tracks are Demonseed and 1,000,000.

Have you heard about the alternate reality game (ARG) that surrounded their last album, Year Zero? Basically it’s a game whose clues and actions extend into real life. One in which people from all over the world try to piece together a puzzle, beginning with a coded message on the back of a t-shirt on their European tour in 2007 and revealing an immersive dystopia…the first step down the rabbit hole.

Apparently, the game isn’t quite over yet, though the trail has gone cold for now. You can read more about the Year Zero ARG on Wired. I think it’s really interesting concept to have a living, breathing and interactive narrative; particularly one with such timely allusions of totalitarianism.

So as you can see, I’m new to this blogging thing but I’m sure my style/content will improve over time! I’ll leave you with some words that have been rolling around in my head:

A stallion of passion, prancing
Behind faceless suits and ties
We glimpse the madness, dancing
In the whites of widened eyes.