| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602517301566 | | Release Date: 4/17/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204254269 | | Item#: M3JW6K | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25530 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2007 Interscope Records
(C) 2007 Interscope Records
| | 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"), Zeroalso 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.
"It's a more compact, immediate Trent." "It's probably the most minimalist Nine Inch Nails has ever been. Conversely, Trent's getting outside of himself lyrically -- it's a real state-of-the-union message wrapped in a sci-fi concept album about a totalitarian government in the not-too-distant future." Spin Magazine
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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. | | Despite its imposing and impossible title, Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D is actually a highly accessible record. That's meant literally. As an addendum to the Nine Inch Nails remix album on disc one, disc two comes on a DVD/CD ROM that features the multi-track masters of all the original tracks, allowing listeners to revise and remix the tracks themselves. Who would have thought Trent Reznor would release the first industrial-pop "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style album? | | That remarkable novelty aside, disc one of Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D contains some excellent remixes of tracks from 2007's YEAR ZERO. Not only is the material strong (YEAR ZERO was the best NIN effort in years), but the remixes, which include work from Kronos Quartet, Bill Laswell, the Faint, and Olof Dreijer from the Knife, bring a fresh spin to NIN's music by highlighting its dancey and experimental tendencies. |
Producer: Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross |
Engineer: Atticus Ross; Trent Reznor; Alan Moulder |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero - CD By: Brian Williams - Cinema Blend CD Reviews Published on: 4/19/2007 9:42 AM | | Every track adds value to the overall statement of Year Zero: It's as much about hardline liberal politics (as much as he cares to do) as it is about hard rock entertainment. Reznor has said his concept of how society will eventually collapse--marking the start of the end of the modern world--came to him in a recurring daydream, making the album strangely that much more prophetic. ...read the full review |
| Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero - CD By: Carlo Wolff - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/23/2007 7:01 PM | | New NIN, same old song. Trent Reznor's latest broadside is an expectedly paranoid, unexpectedly stymied look at the future. Fifteen to 20 years from now, Reznor opines in 16 largely chilly tracks, the world is bleak, underpopulated and hopeless. The original Nailhead rants against George Bush (the sloganeering, militaristic "Capital G"), evokes the romance at the heart of George Orwell's influential novel "1984" (in the first -- and yes, catchy -- single, "Survivalism") and almost breaks on through to the other side in "My Violent Heart," the scariest and most adventurous track....read the full review |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/17/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : halo-24 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 63m : 42s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602517301566 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.111)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007".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." Kerrang (Magazine)
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- Ranked #8 in Kerrang's "The Top 20 Albums Of 2007" -- "[A] spectacular, chilling record..." |
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