‘Is that it?’ I asked myself, while listening to the latest installment in Trent Reznor’s disruption of the music industry. Perhaps I’m in a mental over-extension, treating albums that are 44 minutes in length as mere EPs in comparison with Ghost’s 36 tracks. But I think this is in part to the galloping beats that dominate much of The Slip.

The other part is that while The Slip is a great consequence of the creation of Ghosts, it doesn’t Climax enough. Maybe it shouldn’t. The appropriately titled Discipline is the best merger of the clatter and flow of Ghosts, matching corrosive drum exercises and noisy guitars with a single piano line that provides the female yin to the others’ yang.

The Slip – Download