Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails
Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    90
    Listened to as a journey from beginning to end, this is a genuine attempt to progress to pastures new after With Teeth.
  2. All Music Guide
    90
    Year Zero is the finest Nine Inch Nails recording since Downward Spiral. Its songs are memorable, beautifully constructed and articulated.
  3. Stylus Magazine
    91
    This is one of the most forward-thinking “rock” albums to come down the pike in some time, playing with the genre in both form and function while showing off Reznor’s ridiculous resevoir of ideas in fine fashion.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Amid its carefully calibrated sonic assaults, Year Zero has a number of tracks that will stop you in yours.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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User Score
8.9 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 205 Ratings

User 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. JK.
    10
    Fantastic album.
  3. BrendanP
    10
    Every single song on this album is simply stunning.
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