
- Summary: Trent Reznor offers his vision of a bleak future (the year 2022, to be exact) on this 16-track concept album.
- Record Label: Nothing
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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I pushed a button and elected him to office and uh He pushed a button and he dropped the bomb You pushed a button and can watch it on the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 28
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Mixed: 10 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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"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.
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Year Zero is the finest Nine Inch Nails recording since Downward Spiral. Its songs are memorable, beautifully constructed and articulated.
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Make no mistake this is NIN as usual, but [it is] an effortless, inspired, and unaffected Trent Reznor the likes of which we may not have had the pleasure of knowing for almost a decade and a half.
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“Year Zero” is much more seductive than “With Teeth,” partly because of all the so-called noise.... If all these sounds often distract listeners from Mr. Reznor’s lyrics, well, so much the better.
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Besides a batch of solid singles – electro-punk death march "Survivalism," fiendishly swinging "Capital G" – every so often Year Zero devolves into a feverish barrage of squelches and squalls that comes off as mood music for especially amorous androids.
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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.
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SpinThe songs drag in the middle, choruses become interchangeable, and too many tracks end with the same electronic stuttering. [May 2007, p.84]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 97 out of 108
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Mixed: 6 out of 108
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Negative: 5 out of 108
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CraigC.May 29, 2008THE best NIN album thus far!
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RichardHApr 23, 2007
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JacksonYApr 13, 2007Truly genius. One of the best album made in years. People have never heard anything sound like this before.
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Apr 11, 2012
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MichaelBApr 17, 2007
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ErwinKApr 30, 2007
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RingoDingoSep 6, 2007
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