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Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails
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76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics What's this?

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8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 193 Ratings

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  • Summary: Trent Reznor offers his vision of a bleak future (the year 2022, to be exact) on this 16-track concept album.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    Reznor sets his machinery on "kill" and points it toward authority and herd mentality. [Jun 2007, p.158]
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    100
    "Year Zero" is a total marriage of the pop and gamer aesthetics that unlocks the rusty cages of the music industry and solves some key problems facing rock music as its cultural dominance dissolves into dust. It's easy for even Reznor appreciators to overlook this accomplishment, because "Year Zero" also works as pure pop.
  3. Dot Music
    60
    Everything here sounds familiar.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 99 out of 106
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 106
  3. Negative: 4 out of 106
  1. CraigC.
    10
    THE best NIN album thus far!
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. SteveT
    4
    lyrically weak ... uneventful at most times a major disappointment. the thermals released an album of a somewhat similar theme only they pulled it off with great success. biggest disappointment of the year so far.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DanP
    2
    Terrible. One or two good songs (maybe Hyperpower! and Capital G) but that's it, "Survivalism" completely sucks, avoid this one and buy one of their old pieces of art, that are actually worth your money.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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