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'''==Track Listing==[[Image:About tfa.jpg|thumb|About the release]]===CD===#"[[Into The Void (song)#Slipping Away|Slipping Away]]" - 6:11#"[[The Great Collapse]]" - 4:42#"[[The Wretched#The Wretched (Version)|The Wretched (Version)]]" - 5:52#"[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)#Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)—Adrian Sherwood|Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)]]" - 5:11#"[[The Frail#The Frail (Version)|The Frail (Version)]]" - 2:47#"[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)#Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)—Dave "Rave" Ogilvie|Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)]]" - 6:06#"[[Where Is Everybody?#Where Is Everybody? (Version)|Where Is Everybody? (Version)]]" - 5:07#"[[Metal]]" - 7:05#"[[10 Miles High#10 Miles High (Version)|10 Miles High (Version)]]" - 5:11#"[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)#Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)—Charlie Clouser|Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)]]" - 5:09 ===Vinyl===&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A1&nbsp; "Slipping Away" – 6:11<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A2&nbsp; "The Great Collapse" – 4:42<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;B1&nbsp; "The Wretched (Version)" – 5:52 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;B2&nbsp; "Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)" – 5:11 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C1&nbsp; "The Frail (Version)" – 2:47 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C2&nbsp; "Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)" – 6:06<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C3&nbsp; "10 Miles High (Version)" – 5:11 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D1&nbsp; "Metal" – 7:05 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D2&nbsp; "Where Is Everybody? (Version)" – 5:07<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D3&nbsp; "Starfuckers, Inc. (Version)" – 5:09 ==Artwork==The typeface used on ''Things Falling Apart''is Index-Book, designed by Josh Darden & Timothy Glaser. In a 2025 post to his Patreon[https://www.patreon.com/posts/25-years-of-nins-144077283], [[Rob Sheridan]] elaborated on the process of creating the artwork and how it informed his creativity going forward: <blockquote>As a companion album to 1999's ''The Fragile' (also known as ', ''Things Falling Apart''needed to closely follow [[Halo numbers|Halo 16David Carson]]'s art direction / design from ''The Fragile''while carving out its own identity. I'd been working with Carson's style for the past year by this point, adapting it to my own designs for album and tour promo materials, websites, merchandise, and the [[Fragility]] tour book, so Trent felt confident that I was ready to tackle an album design. This was probably a much bigger deal to me than it was to him; as a die-hard NIN fan, the weight of permanently leaving my mark on the catalog of Nine Inch Nails halos (the internal numbering system used for official Nine Inch Nails releases)weighed heavily on my young shoulders. Thankfully, released in I had some time throughout 2000to prepare and experiment. It began with taking a lot of photos, is described as many as I could wherever I was, to start finding my own way through David Carson's direction. My photography of the flowers was of course a collection thematic continuation of "various manipulations Carson's photos for ''The Fragile'', but also of songs recorded from Robert Hales' work on ''[[The Fragile Day The World Went Away (halo)|The FragileDay The World Went Away]]'' sessions". [[Thingsfallingapart.com|An official website]] was set up for its releasesingle, which started ''The Fragile'' era's flower theme in a much more formal style than Carson's.

Carson was a design hero of mine, so of course playing in his style was exhilarating but also very intimidating for a very young, very new designer. A two-track promotional version lot of Carson's imagery was abstract snapshots of his surroundings that he'[[Into The Void d capture unconventionally, sometimes with disposable cameras and polaroids, recontextualizing small details of found objects into abstract art and then employing it thematically into his designs (halo)|Into the red texture on the cover of ''The Void]]Fragile'' was released in is an out-of-focus snapshot of the inside of a conch shell, for example). To find my own way of adapting his approach, I began experimenting with a macro lens for the US and incorrectly labeled as [[Halo numbers|Halo 16]]first time.

==Track Listing=====CD Release===# "[[Into The Void (song)|Slipping Away]]" - 6:11# "[[The Wretched|The Great Collapse]]" - 4:42# "[[The Wretched]]" (Version) - 5:52# "[[StarfuckersMacro lenses are commonplace now, Inc.|Starf***ersbut back then they were niche, Inc.]]" (Version) technically- 5:11# "[[The Frail]]" oriented, very expensive pro photo equipment (Versionjust look how big the macro lens is on the 16mm camera in that photo) - 2:47# "[[Starfuckers, Inc.|Starf***ersHaving my own pro macro lens to experiment with artistically opened up new portals of expression all around me; emotions from the inanimate, Incstories from mundane details.]]" (Version) - 6:06# "[[Where Is Everybody?]]" (Version) - 5:07# "[[Metal]]" - 7:05# "[[10 Miles High]]" (Version) - 5:11# "[[Starfuckers, Inc.|Starf***ersHaving my own pro macro lens to experiment with artistically opened up new portals of expression all around me; emotions from the inanimate, Incstories from mundane details.]]" (Version) - 5:09

#"Slipping Away" – 6:11 #"For ''Things Falling Apart'', however, the voice I was finding in macro photography wasn't quite right. I was learning the right lessons, but using the wrong tool. My macro photographs felt too purposeful and cinematic, speaking a slightly different language than the aesthetics of ''The Great Collapse" – 4:42 #"The Wretched (version)" – 5:52 #"StarfuckersFragile''. Ultimately, I accidentally found the right artistic note for ''Things Falling Apart'' when I tried to capture some unique flowers in the light of dusk with my day-to-day consumer pocket digital camera, Incwhose tiny lens couldn't quite hit the macro focus. It was a perfectly accidental Carson solution. (version)" – 5:11 (Disc 2)

#"The Frail (version)" – 2:47 #"StarfuckersDesigning ''Things Falling Apart'' was a big early milestone for me as an professional and a fan, Inc. (version)" – 6:06 #"10 Miles High (version)" – 5:11 #"Metal" – 7:05 #"Where Is Everybody? (version)" – 5:07 #"Starfuckersbut I can’t overstate how much the experience helped shaped me as an artist, Incand how much of it I still carry with me today. (version)" – 5:09 </blockquote>

*7 [[Danny Lohner]] featuring [[Telefon Tel Aviv]]production: Danny Lohner, Joshua Eustis, Charles CooperJoshua Eustis and Charles Cooper appear courtesy of Hefty Records (www.heftyrecords.com)

*Publicity: Susan Celia Swan for [[NothingRecords|Nothing]]

*Design and photography: [[Rob Sheridan]]

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