{{expand}}[[Image:The_slip.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 27: ''The Slip'']]'''''The Slip''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 27]]''''') is the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]."The album is available for download in a variety of formatsCD/DVD package on July 22, including MP3, lossless FLAC 2008 and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each songvinyl on August 4th, as was the case with [[Ghosts I-IV]]2008.
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. 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]]''.
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]
#"[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]" - 3:29
#"[[Corona Radiata]]" - 7:33
#"[[The Four Of Us Are Dying]]" - 4:37
#"[[Demon Seed]]" - 4:59
Full length=====DVD=====#"1,000,000" (Live Rehearsal) - 4: 4312#"Letting You" (Live Rehearsal) - 3:57#"Discipline" (Live Rehearsal) - 4:12#"Echoplex" (Live Rehearsal) - 4:51#"Head Down" (Live Rehearsal) - 4:04 ====12" Vinyl==== A1 "999,999" - 1:25<br> A2 "1,000,000" - 3:56<br> A3 "Letting You" - 3:49<br> A4 "Discipline" - 4:19<br> A5 "Echoplex" - 4:45<br> B1 "Head Down" - 4:55<br> B2 "Lights In The Sky" - 3:29<br> B3 "Corona Radiata" - 7:33<br> B4 "The Four Of Us Are Dying" - 4:37<br> B5 "Demon Seed" - 4:59 ==Formats=====Downloads===*High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.*FLAC lossless (259 mb)*FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio*M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)*High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free. ===Physical Product===''The Slip'' is available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak is limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and includes a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from ''The Slip'' at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. It was released on July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and on July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe. Originally, the physical product was intended to be released in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered CD/DVD package limited to 250,000 units, with unnumbered editions to be released in the UK, Europe, and Australia with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced to 250,000 overall. The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It was released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008. The physical product also comes with three 4" x 4" stickers, each representing one of 9 illustrations to album songs (printed in booklet or individually embedded in distributed media files), with the difference that none of the stickers have the red lines. The stickers appear in consistent order, which allowed community to dub them 1st, 2nd and 3rd sticker packs and create The Slip Owners Database [http://theslip.apocalyptech.com]. ====Third Disc & 11th Track====There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”. All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 at [http://theslip.nin.com/physical/ theslip.nin.com/physical]
==Album Credits==
*Written by [[Trent Reznor]]
*Performed by Trent Reznor, [[Josh Freese]], [[Robin Finck]] and [[Alessandro Cortini]]
*Produced by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]
*Mixed by Alan Moulder
*Programmed by Atticus Ross
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081217004552/http://theslip.nin.com/ theslip.nin.comat Wayback Machine]*[https://archive.org/details/NineInchNails-TheSlipMulti-trackStems ''The Slip'' Multitracks at archive.org]*[http://nincatalog.com/the-slip/ ''The Slip'' at nincatalog.com]*[http://theslip.apocalyptech.com Un-official The Slip owners database]*[http://dl.nin.com/kml/slip_dls.kml Google Earth KML file] to show worldwide download stats*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnine%2520inch%2520nails%2520the%2520slip%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 ''The Slip'' at Amazon] *[http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=nine+inch+nails+the+slip&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg ''The Slip'' at eBay]{{Halo|number=27|before=[[Ghosts I–IV]]|after=[[Hesitation Marks]]}}