Coup is the debut album by The New Regime, which is a solo project by Ilan Rubin

Ilan Rubin

Ilan Rubin is an American musician, best known for being former drummer of Lostprophets & industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails during their last tour...

, the previous drummer of Welsh

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 band Lostprophets

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 and current drummer of Nine Inch Nails

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. Ilan recorded all 10 tracks himself on all instruments, including vocals. In addition to the songs found over the last few months on his Myspace

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 page, he recorded two additional songs for this album.

It was released on November 18, 2008 as a digital download on digital music stores

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 such as iTunes

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, Amazon

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 and eMusic

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. It was also released as a free download on the official Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

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 web site.

A follow-up to Coup was released three years later in April 2011 and is called Speak Through The White Noise.

Track listing

1. "The Collapse" - 5:14
2. "Order Restored" - 5:07
3. "All These Changes" - 4:42
4. "Take Control" - 3:58
5. "Time Erase" - 3:01
6. "Haunt My Mind" - 4:03
7. "This War Time" - 3:58
8. "The Credit "We" Deserve" - 4:51
9. "Tap Dancing In A Minefield" - 4:04
10. "Somethings" - 3:47

Personnel

• Ilan Rubin
  Ilan Rubin
  Ilan Rubin is an American musician, best known for being former drummer of Lostprophets & industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails during their last tour...
  
  - drums, vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, lyrics, production
• Aaron Rubin - production

External links

• The New Regime Official Website
• The New Regime Myspace
• Coup Release Announcement