Closer

by Nine Inch Nails

Closer cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Nothing
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 52:42
  • Community rating: 4.05/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Ilan Rubin, Saul Williams, Chris Vrenna, Robin Finck, Enrique Gonzalez, Charlie Clouser, Thavius Beck, Trent Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt, Alessandro Cortini, Atticus Ross, Marc Paradis, Steve Hakel, Danny Lohner

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Driven by a profoundly funky, synthesized bassline and a heavily modified kick drum sample originally recorded by Iggy Pop, 'Closer' brought industrial music to the mainstream masses. Trent Reznor's lyrics utilize intensely graphic sexual imagery as a metaphor for desperate isolation and self-degradation. Despite its explicit content, the track's undeniable, mechanical groove made it an unavoidable club staple and alternative radio behemoth.

Genres

Descriptors: hedonism, rhythmic, alienation, industrial, electronic

Tracklist

  1. Closer To God (5:05)
  2. Closer (Precursor) (7:16)
  3. Closer (Deviation) (6:15)
  4. Heresy (Blind) (5:32)
  5. Memorabilia (7:21)
  6. Closer (Internal) (4:15)
  7. March Of The Fuckheads (4:43)
  8. Closer (Further Away) (5:45)
  9. Closer (6:26)

Credits

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