Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Reviews of Year Zero

Rating Summary
n/a by Pitchfork Media Low on anthemic hooks and heavy on riotous noise breaks, Year Zero finds Reznor waving his digital hardcore flag high. Read more
4 by Aftonbladet ... Read more
n/a by NME This is just one long squelchy fart of a soundscape that Reznor himself admits is probably too long. It's certainly too unremitting. Read more
n/a by Rolling Stone On Year Zero, Reznor doesn't exactly sound like he's having fun -- does he ever? But he runs out of disc space before he runs out of ideas, and it's the first time that's happened in quite a while. Read more
n/a by Popmatters 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. Read more
n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com 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. Read more
n/a by www.slantmagazine.com 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. Read more
n/a by www.calendarlive.com "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. Read more
n/a by www.ew.com Amid its carefully calibrated sonic assaults, Year Zero has a number of tracks that will stop you in yours. Read more
n/a by www.nytimes.com “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. Read more
n/a by www.nowtoronto.com Thematically it's overboard and at 16 tracks over 60 minutes repetitious and ham-fisted. But musically, Year Zero offers moments of industrial brilliance. Read more
n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com Everything here sounds familiar. Read more
n/a by www.prefixmag.com Applaud Reznor for attempting something that doesn't read like school graffiti; shake your little fist at him for doing it anyway. Read more
n/a by www.drownedinsound.com Listened to as a journey from beginning to end, this is a genuine attempt to progress to pastures new after With Teeth. Read more
n/a by www.hotpress.com A number of tracks here follow a similar, frustrating formula. For three minutes they showcase Reznor’s worst tendencies; the boorish plod of the choruses, the hoarse moan of the vocals. On the remainder of each of these songs Reznor does what he’s good at – i.e. creating delicious layers of chaotic industrial noise. Read more
n/a by www.austinchronicle.com 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. Read more
n/a by www.avclub.com Year Zero doesn't just fall short of the promo campaign; it doesn't even rank among NIN's most adventurous efforts. Read more
n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com 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. Read more
n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com Year Zero massively benefits from lowered expectations. Reznor channels his anger, focuses it and takes a much-needed breather from his tried-and-true formula of nihilism and the question of self-destruction, but at its core the album has very little to teach us or anything original to say. Read more
n/a by www.ctnow.com It's dark and harrowing, but "Year Zero" is the most compelling and fully realized album Reznor has made since "Pretty Hate Machine." Read more
n/a by www.boston.com It's classic Nine Inch Nails with a few extra-disturbing flourishes. Read more
n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk Its nihilism can grate, but it makes an impression. Read more
n/a by SVD Year zero, år noll, är Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznors mörka framtidsvision om hur en religiös diktatur tagit greppet om USA. En konceptskiva som istället för att gräva djupt i Reznors egen själ- och ta... Read more
4 by Metica ... Read more
n/a by Expressen ROCK/ELECTRO Stoppa in den mörkt färgade cd:n i spelaren och – simsalabim – den kommer ut vit! Coolt. Den tematiska essän om år noll (2022) då den kr... Read more