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[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]
'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, a CD/DVD package on July 22, 2008 and a vinyl on August 4th, 2008.
While [[Trent Reznor]] is known for laboring over his music for years at a time, ''The Slip'' was written in a month and recorded in just three weeks, with mixing, mastering, and art taking one additional week.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120721032635/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?pagewanted=all] The album was originally intended to be an EP, but quickly grew to album length.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081204135401/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/article1497804.ece]
==Track Listing==
#"[[999,999]]" - 1:25
#"[[1,000,000]]" - 3:56
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59
#"1,000,000" (Live Rehearsal) - 4:12
#"Letting You" (Live Rehearsal) - 3:57
==Release==
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on [[nin.com]], simply stating "2 weeks!". The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of ''[[Ghosts I-IV]]''. Two tracks, "Discipline" and "Echoplex", were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message "go to www.nin.com May 5" in their ID3 tags.
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title [[Halo numbers|Halo 27]] and a link to [[theslip.nin.com]] with the message: [http://ninblogs.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/halo-27/]
I found the perfect capture from the shoot, edited it in Photoshop, and then took it into Exposure, modifying the vintage B&W daguerreotype high contrast preset to give the photo the softness, heavy grain, and blown-out photocopy look we were inspired by in Cieslewicz's poster. From there, I added the broken red bar design element and the same worn paper texture used throughout ''The Slip'''s art to unify it.</blockquote>
When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was the case with ''Ghosts I–IV'']]. Of the individual track artwork, Sheridan stated: "For Nine Inch Nails' album, we created logos representing each song, and embedded them in the MP3s to give each song its own visual identity when played digitally. Each logo played upon the meaning or title of the song, sometimes overtly, sometimes very abstractly. A scribbled red line crossed into most of the images, struggling to find harmony with the shapes, but ultimately failing." In a Patreon Q&A session[https://www.patreon.com/posts/rob-sheridan-ama-34278427], Sheridan was asked about the art for "Demon Seed" and he explained that it was "the end of the journey of the red line that moved through the artwork of that record, trying to make sense of the rigid forms, sometimes fighting them, before finally overtaking them. It was Trent's idea to have the line take over 'Demon Seed' so completely/aggressively. It tied in to the meaning behind the music, which isn't my place to discuss as TR tends to keep that stuff close to his chest." In a Twitter post, Sheridan explained that the track logos were inspired by De Stijl/Neoplasticism.[https://web.archive.org/web/20210607182609/https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1389976605968134148]
The cover of the booklet is a new piece of artwork that depicts several light gray lines on a dark background (the same color as the one for 1,000,000). Five lines, two on the ends and three in the middle, all travel straight downward from the top edge to the bottom. Two more lines, in between the three middle and two outside, on each side, start straight downward, then slant inward, then travel straight downward parallel to the other lines before they would intersect the ones in the middle. These lines combined form a variation on the [[Logo History|NIN logo]] (second "N" being backwards).