Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D

One of the most unpredictable bands in the world

It is soon the end of the second decade during which the band that has always been in the center of attention without any special efforts Nine Inch Nails in the face of the only songwriter and vocalist Trent Reznor playing all the instruments except for the drums never ceases to surprise the audience. This year betraying his tradition of making long the pauses between releases the musician has released his first conceptual album Year Zero accompanied by a huge hype on the Internet. The dust has not yet settled with the new record when the industrial rocker invented another surprise – a remix album with the newest songs calling it Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D, a name that can be rather written than pronounced. Unwilling to limit neither oneself nor the others Reznor has allowed the authors of the remixes do anything they like with the songs, moreover, one of the new album's editions is supplied with a DVD-ROM containing Year Zero songs in a multi-track format that permits anybody to make remixes. Proving once again that Nine Inch Nails is one of the most unpredictable bands in the world, album Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D serves a perfect example of what sullen and hard songs can turn into when remixed, and many of its tracks can easily find themselves on dance floors in the nearest future.

Interpretations second to none on Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D

If the atmosphere on Year Zero was firmly sullen and oppressing it can be hardly said about Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D for each track is a creation of a certain author, the interpretation that is second to none, although with the texts' themes here we can neither speak of joy or hope for the better. The album opens with shouting Guns By Computer that has obtained an aggressive beat and remained the same angry and penetrating song, if more outrageous. A calmer composition The Great Destroyer with a distinct melody is greatly different from the rest of the album for a psychedelic sounding. The only remix made by an unknown fan My Violent Heart is a frankly dance song with electronic noises and a deafening bass line, and a contagious beat of The Beginning Of The End will leave none indifferent, although the song is far from a light one. A tough Survivalism has turned into a mixture of hip-hop and electronics, while the deeply sullen song Vessel has preserved its atmosphere in the remix and became even more assertive. The Warning (Feat. Doudou N'diaye Rose) has a most interesting beat and can serve a background to progressive wild dancing, whereas lyrical masterpiece God Given is a fully electronic song with impetuous beat that never lets relax. Mysterious audio effects make the longest track here Me, I'm Not, a dance number, remind of a strong and breathtaking hallucination. Composition Another Version Of The Truth really amazes for its first part full of strange frightening sounds is perfect for a horror film soundtrack, but then the song gradually obtains an amazing melody that even gives the creeps. The album closes with Zero-Sum, a splendid electronic composition with rightfully the most contagious beat.

Nine Inch Nails' works sound with a new force

The fourteen tracks from Nine Inch Nails latest album could never prove to be that unusual if it were not for the talented authors. Hip hop star Saul Williams, projects like Ladytron, Bill Laswell, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, The Knife's Olof Dreijer, The Kronos Quartet, a fan that calls himself Pirate Robot Midget have all found what is the best in the Reznor's songs and outlined it in the remixes. It goes without saying that the works of Nine Inch Nails that are always so volume, have sounded with a new force and some of them are not that easy to recognize on Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D for they are quite modified. Undoubtedly the fans are endlessly grateful to Mr. Reznor for being that open to innovations, and the songs of a rock band are free to be known by a much wider audience for the album is filled with brilliant dance versions of hard songs. There can be some people that are probably not content with such a turn, but Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D fully coincides with Nine Inch Nails's point of view of what the sequence of its works' release should be like, especially with the last expectation being surprisingly short. It is worth while hoping that the continuation Year Zero will be released soon just as well.