Year Zero
| Nine Inch Nails
Year Zero
Year Zero is the fifth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by Interscope Records on April 17, 2007. Conceived while touring in support of the band's previous album, With Teeth (2005), the album was recorded throughout late-2006, and was produced by frontman Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It was the band's last album for Interscope, following Reznor's departure the same year over a dispute of overseas pricing.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Trent Reznor shuns radio-friendly alt-rock and settles into his role as a cult star, releasing a complex record about a dystopian near-future.
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Rolling Stone
Reznor brings the pain on Year Zero, his strongest, weirdest and most complex record since The Downward Spiral. Rating:
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Drowned In Sound
The first time you listen to Year Zero it's doubtful you'll be thinking much about that. The more likely first impression (especially if played at volume) is that Nine Inch Nails have made a great big, fucked-up, dirty dance record; it’s the sort of thing The Sneaker Pimps might have made if they'd had children with Slipknot. Where the live shows and previous album might have indicated Trent was going all organic on our asses, this record is often like Sixty Five Days of being shafted by the Terminator, the inexorable rise of the machines, the like of which we haven’t really seen since _‘Fixed’ and ‘The Downward Spiral’. It’d be tempting to say that the previous record was more focused on songs than an overall theme, but that might somehow imply that songs have taken second place to sonics on the new record. They haven’t.
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Av Club
Musically speaking, Reznor has returned—wisely, but predictably—to his stock in trade: a pulsing, sexualized 4/4 throb whose melodious inner pop song struggles to crack the complex industrial grime atop it. (See "The Good Soldier," a near-reprise of 1994's omnipresent MTV hit "Closer.") As on 2005's With Teeth, he's sequenced the material in such a way that Year Zero feels less like an album than like a single, subtly shifting track—that's an hour long.
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Sputnik
Trent Reznor makes an easily digestible album with hooks galore, heart, and loads of what we have come to expect from NIN. And he does it better then he has in nearly 15 years. Angst? What angst, this is fun, interesting, dark, and entertaining.
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Slant
If you give a Nine Inch Nails album a cookie, it’ll want a glass of milk. It’s something that every NIN fan will espouse: Trent Reznor’s songs will get stuck in your head if you let them. “Hyperpower!,” the opening track to Year Zero doesn’t disappoint in this regard, nor does it do its name injustice. The one-minute-and-42-second song contains just about every major theme on the album, layered into a catastrophic mess that sounds oddly exquisite. The problem is that those layers, when pulled apart and spread over 16 songs, don’t add up to the chaos and immediacy of that brief sonic explosion. A few tracks succeed, notably “God Given,” which couples its creepy vocal track with a strange call-and-response that is as close to “Closer” as Reznor has come in years. On the other hand, lead single “Survivalism” is explosive but feels derivative of the alt-rock scene Reznor helped shape in the early ‘90s, which is indicative of the album as a whole. “Capital G” is an assault on the Bush administration, capped off with some drone-like chanting; it’s a relevant topic for a song, but it feels rather impersonal for Reznor, whose specialty is digging into the inner psyche of his audience. The instrumental “Another Version Of The Truth” really allows the listener to be absorbed by the intricacies of the production and take a break from all the ancillary material; the song’s latter half is remarkably beautiful, mixing a dulcet piano melody over that ominous hum omnipresent in NIN’s work. Reznor seems to eschew depth for surface explosions and instant gratification, and the result is a finished product that, while decent on an individual track, doesn’t hold up as Year Zero progresses.
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All Music
Nine Inch Nails' 2007 release Year Zero will undoubtedly go down in rock history for the way the recording was marketed before its release. It may mark the first time that the advance strategy -- conceived of and executed, for the most part, by NIN auteur Trent Reznor himself with 42 Entertainment -- became part and parcel of the edifice that is the album's concept: an alternate reality game and a possible film project that lasts three years in total make up the rest.
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Pop Matters
Hearing new material from this old warhorse at a time when it’s most needed is damn reassuring; however, it cannot be said, in all honesty, that the music on Year Zero is good. To quote the source, the record’s heart is black, and hollow, and cold. Plus, its heavy-handed electronic motions fit into neither the boundaries of rock, metal, or pop... but on it Reznor shows a newfound, almost fanatical confidence in his art that never fails to impress. Both dissonant and difficult, trying your patience at every savage turn, letting only the most dedicated in to its few moments of glory, if that boldness is anything to go by, then the new Nine Inch Nails is eventually going to be a stronger unit than it’s ever been.
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Metal Storm
Just as few bands had any chance at all against The Downward Spiral in 1995, so will it be very hard for anyone to release anything better than Year Zero this year (especially in the industrial rock/metal genre). Malcontents love to bash NIN for their pop leanings; however, seriously - there is no denying the genius of this music and it should definitely be a part of your collection this year.
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NY Times
Even the electronic noises on “Year Zero” sound a bit old-fashioned: a throwback to the days when computer-generated music was full of static and blips. If “Year Zero” feels warm and, for better and worse, familiar, this is why. It’s not really a cautionary tale: it’s a reminiscence.
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Punk News
Outside of an overshot ending, Year Zero is an invigorating piece of electronic music. While it may test the patience of casual NIN fans, the more dedicated should be pleased to see their beloved Reznor once again pissed off and pushing forward. After overcoming drugs and poor record sales, Reznor has once again found his rhythm and delivered another brilliant album. Year Zero is not only the strongest NIN release of the last 20 years, it's also one of the most righteous political pieces of art in that same span of time.
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Head Stuff
It’s among Reznor’s most ambitious work, and almost all of those ambitions get realized. Year Zero isn’t the best-known Nine Inch Nails album of the century so far, but it deserves to be.
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NPR
"Year Zero" is a political album. The landscape it describes is a world 15 years in the future, wracked by widespread violence, environmental devastation and moral and spiritual anarchy.
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Eastbay Express
Zero's lyrics contain a subtle perspective shift: Instead of turning his anger inward, Reznor channels his ire and scorn at outsiders - namely the government and its clueless leaders (gee, wonder who the song "Capital G" is about?) and other zealots.
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Billboard
The audio component of the dystopian back story that frames the record and its attendant Web angle/ publicity stunt, "Year Zero" is reportedly set 15 years into the future in a world controlled by a violent theocracy, where, in keeping with Orwellian law, citizens are regularly drugged and a God-hand has been known to reach down from the sky. None of that strays terribly far from NIN's usual lyrical stomping grounds, but it's fun to hear Trent Reznor play other roles and fire holes into the technology he's been so vital in employing.
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Treble
With its anti-marketing, unusually speedy turnaround after the last NIN album and a heavy-handed concept, Year Zero is an unlikely tour de force. Certainly, Trent Reznor’s visions on Year Zero are horrifying ones, but they’re executed in the most satisfying way. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed a Nine Inch Nails album this much.
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BBC
Reznor’s music defies simple categorization and this impressive offering doesn’t so much cross borders as to go on clandestine raids through the realms of electronica, industrial edged rock and even hip hop. Diverse sounds are layered into a musical collage that continues to evolve with listening time and creates an aural depiction of a planet ravaged by war, ecological destruction and social disintegration.
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Stylus
His new Year Zero concerns a dark, soulless place—the U.S.A.—in 2022, after it’s become a totalitarian state. Each song is a little vignette, a snapshot of a bleaker-than-bleak future, a chapter in a novella.
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Metal Sucks
By now everyone knows that Year Zero is a concept album that takes set in a totalitarianally (it’s a new word, don’t bother looking it up) governed future with a giant hand called “the presence” which reaches down from the sky and does something really reaching like a giant hand would do… Ok, whatever.
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Pefix
The emotional heft of Year Zero’s vision is allowed more room to breathe, despite the paradoxical doublespeak of the inherently cold and digital manipulations. And wasn’t that, before the straightjackets of narcissism and rock stardom stagnated Reznor’s artistic trajectory, the point of Nine Inch Nails all along?
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NBC Washington
“Year Zero” is a career pinnacle for an artist who has a new level of relevance after seeming out of the game for a while. There is no trace of levity here, and little hope – just warning, and anger. Reznor’s voice is one that is needed for these times. He captures the anguish and disillusionment felt by a large portion of American society quite vividly. Twenty years from now, like Green Day’s “American Idiot, “Year Zero” will be one of the albums that will define the George W. Bush era, just like Neil Young’s “Ohio” defines the Nixon years, or “Born in the USA” seems synonymous with the Reagan era. With “Year Zero”, Reznor grabs us by the collar and gives a firm shake, inviting us to wake up, put down the X-box controller, and take a glance at the world around us.
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Stereogum
Sonically, Year Zero did away with the rock instrumentation that Reznor had employed before, and experiments with electronica and hip-hop. The watchword here is minimalism: Reznor and Atticus Ross wrote most of the record on laptops during the With Teeth tour, and maybe some of that on-the-run energy bled into the music. It's the more well-formed predecessor to Hesitation Marks, in that regard. Reznor cited the Bomb Squad as an influence, and it shows in Year Zero's frequent transitions from noise to dance beats. He even invited emcee and performance poet Saul Williams to guest on two tracks and produce an excellent hip-hop remix of "Survivalism."
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Austin Chronicle
Year Zero devolves into a feverish barrage of squelches and squalls that comes off as mood music for especially amorous androids. Nine Inch Nails have always worked a cold, erotic grind that reaches its zenith here, which must be part of Reznor's secret plan to save humanity. The more our future robot masters get their rocks off, the better their moods will be.
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Lars
The album describes the dystopian world of 2022, or “Year Zero” by presenting 16 tracks, each of which is textually not much more than a momentary snapshot written from the viewpoint of one character. Through the textual vagueness of the 16 modular songs, the narrated world of the album remains opaque unless the reader/listener also becomes a player of the ARG.
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LA Times
At the very least, Trent Reznor is still creating chaotic rock ‘n’ roll. And that’s more than marketing; it’s pioneering art. Rating:
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Vulture Hound
Year Zero is an album that can almost go unnoticed, far from the confessions of 2005’s With Teeth and the experimental instrumentals of 2008’s Ghosts I-IV. Its release also included an alternate reality game and a remix album, Year Zero Remix, as well an overwhelming avant-garde viral campaign which marked a turning point, as it was not only a marketing campaign, but a whole network of webpages and other additional content which formed an essential complement to the album and its history.
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Reflections Of Darkness
This April saw the release of ‘Year Zero’, the new album by Trent Reznor’s project NINE INCH NAILS. This album came pretty quick, at least in Trent Reznor’s terms as it often takes 4 to 5 years between album releases, and hit the shops only 23 months after the release of its forerunner ‘With Teeth’. I have to admit that I wasn’t too impressed at first with ‘Year Zero’ musically, I loved a few tracks but the album did not overwhelm me from the start just like earlier NIN albums (just for the record, it was already the same with ‘With Teeth’). But the more you learn about the whole concept and story around ‘Year Zero’ the more it takes you in and fascinates you. ‘Year Zero’ is much more than just the music, in fact much more than only the album in itself.
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Blabbermouth
"Year Zero", is reportedly the first of two concept records about a future religious dictatorship taking over the U.S. amid signs that the apocalypse is near. But this isn't bandleader Trent Reznor's first attempt at telling a story through music.
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Late To The Game
The album itself is phenomenal. Every track from the opening Hyper Power! to the deep introspective Zero Sum, there is not a moment lacking depth and artistry. It is intense, it is powerful, it is real. Sadly, it is becoming more and more real and his prediction that this album took place 15 years from it’s release in 2007 is becoming more and more prophetic than I think even Trent intended.
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Axs
the band dropped “Ghosts I-IV,” an almost entirely instrumental album that was followed by “The Slip,” the band’s seventh full-length studio album. Some of Year Zero’s influence can be heard on tracks like “Head Down” and “Letting You” on The Slip. Here, Reznor returns to his politically cynical and socially conscious lyricism and blaring production.
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The Atlantic
It is enveloping and relentless: satisfyingly terse, built with an ear for energizing rhythm, and as adventuresome as anything Reznor has done. If summer’s sunshine clashes with whatever inner turmoil you feel, put on the album and the world will appear to darken appropriately.
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Paste
Classic NIN’s industrial breakdowns are re-imagined here as disco death-drives, and Reznor, despite his lyrical obtuseness, remains one of mainstream rock’s biggest personalities.
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Diffuser
While creating the music, the Nine Inch Nails creative force began kicking ideas around with the band’s art director, Rob Sheridan, for how to convey the larger world of Year Zero in other media. When a detailed album cover or an essay on a website didn’t seem to cut it, the partners in Nine Inch Nails began working with 42 Entertainment to create an alternate reality game that would dovetail with the musical component.
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Commonsense Media
An album that grows on you with each listen...not NIN's finest but a treat to be sure and filled with thought provoking lyrics and at times brilliant use of sound. The album contains several instances of harsh language, some violent lyrics and an overall dark theme.
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COS
Reznor is still testing boundaries, specifically that of expectations as the man who once proclaimed he was “poisoned to [his] rotten core” and “too fucked up to care anymore” has become an acclaimed film composer deftly able to soundtrack anything from a book club thriller to a war documentary.
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NME
‘Year Zero’ is, in Reznor’s words, “the soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist”. It brings together the voices of different characters from this fictional dystopia, as the world approaches its final end-game. Trouble is, they all sound like ambient-period Nine Inch Nails songs from ‘The Fragile’, and this means lots of silver and grey ambience, but not many tunes. OK, there’s about three: ‘Survivalism’, ‘Capital G’ and ‘God Given’. But what’s strange is that the brilliantly visceral live band that Reznor assembled to tour last collection ‘With Teeth’ are barely used here.
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Exclaim
Year Zero is a concept album set in a dystopian future, as the United States reinvents itself as a Christian theocracy following a series of major terrorist attacks. The album has already inspired an alternate reality game.
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Plugged In
A totalitarian government co-opts God-language to control people, which comes across as a paranoid slap at organized religion (“God Given,” “Zero Sum”). The future will be a violent place, judging from lines such as “Gunfire in the street … step over the dead” and “[I can] murder everything … I am the great destroyer.” “Survivalism” accuses mankind of raping the environment, using sexual imagery to make its point. Strong profanity blasts those unconcerned about global warming on “Capital G.” The artist’s view of humanity’s last days has more in common with The Matrix than with biblical prophecy.
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Firstpost
Year Zero universe to be anything but a marketing move to promote the music. There’s obvious influence from the earliest creators of dystopian fiction – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World – especially in the use of institutions such as the “Bureau of Morality” and “First Evangelical Churhc of Plano” in Year 0, named to indicate that America has been reborn. The only people fighting the powers that be are the “Solutions Backwards Initiative”, who find a way to send information back in time.
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Loudwire
Arguably one of Trent Reznor's most experimental releases, 'Ghosts I-IV' is primarily instrumental and came during a period just after his exit from Interscope Records. Free from the label structure, Reznor etched out a 10-week period in which he, Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder, Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione let the music guide them. The band would start with a visual reference and let the music flow from there while attempting to capture the tone of the reference musically. In some ways, 'Ghosts I-IV' was a nice precursor to Reznor and Ross' future movie scoring collaborations.
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Ultimate Guitar
The lyrics on this album are intelligent and fun to figure out. The lyrics describe a futuristic America, although some of them reflecting an America that we are all familiar with now (Capital G). Now, I know that Capital G is not about George W. Bush (it is about Greed), but you can't help but think that Trent may have had a certain President in mind. Trent is in top form in his singing. Whether it is in his yelling, his harmonies, or his melodies, he still kicks as, if not even more. Although, at least to me, it seems detectable that his voice has become a bit more masculine due to his new found buffness, he still is performing in top form.
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Static
This latest offering from Trent certainly has the potential to be a classic concept album like Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime. All the work to create the future world dystopia definitely gives an intensity to the the tracks. Give Year Zero a listen at the official site and see if you agree.
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Bloody Disgusting
Industrial legends Nine Inch Nails have just uploaded a director’s cut version of “Survivalism”, one of the band’s Year Zero singles. The video, which was directed by Alex Lieu, Rob Sheridan, and Trent Reznor, follows a first person perspective of several TV surveillance monitors which are watching people and also following a SWAT-esque team going through hallways subduing those that are “out of line”.
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Wsws
Year Zero needs to be considered within the context of Trent Reznor’s admirable musical career. With that in mind, NIN’s newest album is all the more striking for both its general lyrical and musical poverty.
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Album Of The Year
Its understandable that the setting of this album, is America come crumbling down, the sinking suspicion that America is truly the most contorted and fucked up place on the planet is becoming clearer with each new headline, this album feels the conscience of that place, pretending that everything done is somehow good, while all the while in the background everything is turning into hell.
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Martin Hennessy
The landscape of the album is lush and vibrant making me only wonder how a follow-up album continuing the concept will sound.
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Album Of The Year
Its understandable that the setting of this album, is America come crumbling down, the sinking suspicion that America is truly the most contorted and fucked up place on the planet is becoming clearer with each new headline, this album feels the conscience of that place, pretending that everything done is somehow good, while all the while in the background everything is turning into hell.
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Martin Hennessy
The landscape of the album is lush and vibrant making me only wonder how a follow-up album continuing the concept will sound.
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Epitomeofepic
Whilst it still comes across with all the angst and hatred that NIN is known for, it’s done in a different way here. Instead of focusing on self-loathing, it’s a concept album, one of how the USA is taken over by a police state, much akin to the world of George Orwell’s 1984. The way the tracks flow so naturally into each other, and the multitude of moods that are conveyed, perfectly bring this concept across extremely naturally.
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Diy
A battlecry for something truly epic.
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Game Faqs
Nine Inch Nails totally predicted the future with Year Zero and it will go down as one of their best because of it. Year Zero wasn't 2024 or whatever year Reznor was saying back then, it was 2017.
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Zero Clark Thirty
Year Zero is a concept album, and it’s a successful one. It tells the story of a country in the midst of a hysterical tyrannical disembowelment. Really, it’s not so far off from the early days of the Arab Spring: people getting ripped out of their houses in the middle of the night; protesters kettled and taken off on anonymous vans never to be seen again; and a general climate of control through fear.
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Cyber Punk News
This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere. That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don’t. This record is the latter. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place… as if it were meant to be. With a framework established, the songs were very easy to write. Things started happening in my “real” life that blurred the lines of what was fiction and what wasn’t. The record turned out to be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over time.
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Soul Feeder
Ghost I-IV is of the same caliber as much of Reznor and Ross’s excellent work on film scores.
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Ign
With Year Zero, Reznor's first studio offering in two years, he returns to a more electronic sound, but a dirtier one than graced PHM. The beats and synth cues have been bathed in decay, feedback and filthy distortion. The guitars aren't fully gone, but they've been downplayed, and the result is an album that maintains the Reznor aesthetic while converting the snarl to something more digital.
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Diy
A battle cry for something truly epic.
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Game Faqs
Nine Inch Nails totally predicted the future with Year Zero and it will go down as one of their best because of it. Year Zero wasn't 2024 or whatever year Reznor was saying back then, it was 2017.
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Zero Clark Thirty
Year Zero is a concept album, and it’s a successful one. It tells the story of a country in the midst of a hysterical tyrannical disembowelment. Really, it’s not so far off from the early days of the Arab Spring: people getting ripped out of their houses in the middle of the night; protesters kettled and taken off on anonymous vans never to be seen again; and a general climate of control through fear.
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Cyber Punk News
This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere. That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don’t. This record is the latter. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place… as if it were meant to be. With a framework established, the songs were very easy to write. Things started happening in my “real” life that blurred the lines of what was fiction and what wasn’t. The record turned out to be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over time.
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Soul Feeder
Ghost I-IV is of the same caliber as much of Reznor and Ross’s excellent work on film scores.
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Ign
With Year Zero, Reznor's first studio offering in two years, he returns to a more electronic sound, but a dirtier one than graced PHM. The beats and synth cues have been bathed in decay, feedback and filthy distortion. The guitars aren't fully gone, but they've been downplayed, and the result is an album that maintains the Reznor aesthetic while converting the snarl to something more digital.
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Sound Opinions
Trent Reznor's new Nine Inch Nails release is making news not just for its music, but for its marketing campaign. Rather than do the standard set of interviews and appearances, Reznor launched an interactive internet scavenger hunt to explain the album's story and gain interest. The story behind Year Zero began to unfold when fans discovered that highlighted letters on a NIN concert t-shirt spelled out“I am trying to believe.”
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Tiny Mixtapes
The album’s six tracks are organized into three timbrally similar pairs, with each pair also elongating in duration.
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Noripcord
Nine Inch Nails has crafted a purposefully-unsatisfying conclusion to the journey that began two years ago. For Reznor, if there’s a truth to be found in our place in the world, it’s darker and more complicated than we would like. While he denies us simple solutions, he uses this album to open sounds and atmospheres stranger and more daring than he’s used before. Rather than looking for answers, maybe the questions are what truly matter.
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Audioxide
For listeners, it serves as an insight into the mind of one of rock music’s greatest talents, effectively demonstrating the skills and techniques that have thrilled fans for almost 30 years.
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Salon
"Year Zero's" dystopian story line (it's a concept album), spectrogram analysis of leaked tracks revealed phone numbers to call to overhear faux wiretaps, and on and on. For the diehards who sniffed out every clue and solved every puzzle, perhaps "Year Zero" feels like a worthy reward for months of hard work. For those less invested in the album, it's hard not to imagine how it will come across as anything other than an admirable bore.
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Tv Tropes
You simply can't talk about Year Zero without mentioning its extensive usage of Audience Participation and Adaptation Expansion through an Alternate Reality Game, using variations of websites that were scattered through the album/concerts/USBs left at concerts and slew of creative ways to create the album's world. These methods took a lion's share of the album's reported $2 million budget, and while the websites aren't active anymore (due to the websites expiring with the ARG company that worked on them), fans still consider them to be the key element behind the album's success.
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Wikiwand
Year Zero received positive reviews from critics, who complimented its concept and production, as well as the accompanying alternate reality game. The album reached number two in the US, number six in the UK, and the top 10 in various other countries.
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Last Fm
The Nine Inch Nails we hear on Year Zero is less focused on producing heavy music and more focused on delivering its heavy, conspiratorial doomsday message.
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Pinnacle Music
Add Violence overall is a complex collection of sounds, with a number of strong tracks to recommend it. If you find yourself tuning out towards the latter part of the EP though, probably best to just let it go.
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Metalinjection
Although I'm unsure how it will stand the test of time amongst Nine Inch Nails' discography, the subtle hooks and dynamics stir my curiosity of what is next to come.
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Shindig Music
it’s pretty safe to say that those of us who have been dying for more of this fascinating world will be getting the story of Year Zero.
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The Nin Hotline
All in all, this is a solid effort by Reznor, but there seems to be a few hiccups. Some of the tracks are initially forgettable, but they add to the overall gestalt of the album, and their presence is all the more necessary. Some songs are more immediately accessible than others, and I’m sure with subsequent listens, some that I thought were so-so will probably grow on me. As far as the overall concept, I’d have to wait longer with more listens to really have a grasp of the bigger picture. I can see some of the connects, but there’s a lot going on, and this is just the first part of a two part concept that will be fleshed out via another CD.
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Inquisitr
These records aren’t for everyone, nor were they intended to be. But for the frustrated music fan still holding out hope for some kind of audio renaissance just across the horizon, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have provided something of consequence.
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Robert Christgau
No matter how clichéd Trent Reznor's dystopian fantasies may be--and they have their moments, like the rebels who conquer by crawling and the anti-Bush anthem rendered juicier by its deliberate inconsistencies--it has the virtue of getting him out of himself. And though he may warn of the noise here, it's all just modern music, whooshing and phasing hookily hither and yon. Is it a coincidence that he created his most songful album just when he stopped obsessing on his own dubious agony?
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Music Folio
Reznor seems to eschew depth for surface explosions and instant gratification, and the result is a finished product that, while decent on an individual track, doesn't hold up as 'Year Zero' progresses.
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Omny
Back in 2007, Trent Reznor did something a little different with the release of "Year Zero". He essentially created a game...a mystery...a unique marketing campaign. This was an incredibly complex campaign with clues buried all over the world.
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