Ghosts I-IV
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Ghosts I-IV
Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008, by The Null Corporation. It was the band's first independent release, following their split from longtime label Interscope Records the prior year. The album's production team included Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, studio collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
When Ghosts works best, it's as a showcase for Reznor's estimable studio skills. Plenty of the individual sounds here are just gorgeous, and Reznor even expands his palette a bit to encompass marimbas, banjos, and percussively Beck-like slide-guitar. He layers these sounds expertly, setting glassy pianos against distant roaring-siren counterpoints or interrupting a pulsing drone-hum with a surprisingly accessible bar-rock chug. But even as the tracks progress, nothing really goes anywhere or stands on its own-- even the best track here is essentially half of a really good Nine Inch Nails song.
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NIN
Ghosts I–IV (also known as Halo 26) is the seventh studio album from Nine Inch Nails, released March 2, 2008 over the internet, without prior information being released, and released April 8, 2008 in stores worldwide. It was the first NIN material to be independently released since leaving Interscope Records in 2007. The album is a four-volume, 2-disc release consisting of 36 instrumental tracks, featuring guest musicians. It is the most collaborative NIN album to date, with heavily shared songwriting and performance credits.
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Loudwire
Ghosts is not an easy listen. Clocking in at an hour and fifty minutes, it’s Reznor’s longest work to date, outlasting even 1999’s double album The Fragile. The album sounds very "NIN," even though we never hear Reznor's voice.
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Archive
Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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NPR
Last month, the heavy rock band Nine Inch Nails stepped away from its longtime major label and released the instrumental album Ghosts I-IV on the Internet. The band, led by singer and songwriter Trent Reznor, offered some tracks for free, but sold fans various special editions at premium prices — the total haul for the first week was reported to exceed $1.6 million. This week, the project gets a traditional CD release.
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COS
In listening to this album, I hear a musical liberation and a total freedom of expression that transcends the boundaries of what our ears are trained to hear, and more importantly, allows musicians to be what they truly are beneath the surface…artists. NIN allowed themselves to go wherever their minds took them and somehow also managed enough structure to work that into a cohesive whole, and in the end, they delivered us an album that’s entirely new, refreshing and close to perfection.
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Last Fm
Ghosts I–IV (also known as Halo 26) is the seventh major studio release by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails and was released on March 2, 2008. The album contains 36 instrumental tracks and is the first album from Nine Inch Nails following its announcement that the band had severed its ties with Interscope Records and intended to release future material independently. The final release is presented as four nine-track instrumental EPs. The tracks do not have names, and are identified only by their track listing, position, and album art. The team behind the project featured Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder, with instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.
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All Music
To celebrate his freedom he released the four-part Ghosts, a clearinghouse of 36 instrumentals all created during the years he crafted Year Zero. It should come as no great surprise that Ghosts then plays like a sketchbook, a place where Reznor jotted down sounds and textures that flitted across his mind and then either took them no further, or decided to spin them into something entirely new for the full album. These aren't songs, they're seeds, and they (appropriately) aren't even graced with titles; they're all dubbed "Ghosts," parts one through 36, and if Reznor didn't spend enough time crafting them into proper songs, don't feel too bad if you don't spend enough time with Ghosts to sort through them, picking out which fragments are powered by a clenched electro beat and which are glassy ambient shards.
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Genius
“34 Ghosts IV” is an instrumental track by the American experimental rock project Nine Inch Nails, included in the Creative Commons licensed compilation Ghosts I-IV, released on March 2, 2008. The song was nominated for ‘Best Rock Instrumental Performance’ at the 2008 Grammy Awards, the first Creative Commons song to achieve this honour.
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Rate Your Music
It's pretty much chill, ambient music for 2 hours. This also fits really nicely along with the other instrumental pieces that have been produced in other albums. For how much content there actually is, it's really fucking great to put on in the back-round if you are working or even trying to sleep probably.
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Britannica
Its creation were collected in Ghosts I–IV (2008). Having become dissatisfied with the traditional music-distribution model, Reznor released both Ghosts I–IV and the song-oriented The Slip (2008) as free digital downloads from the Nine Inch Nails Web site.
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Spin
Since leaving Interscope last year, Trent Reznor has been on a productive tear. The latest evidence: For as little $5, you can download Ghosts I–IV (or for you diehards, Halo 26), a stunning collection of 36 instrumental tracks that is one of the most varied and ambitious releases of his career. Highlights include “26 Ghosts III,” which, like the best Nine Inch Nails instrumentals (think “Just Like You Imagined” from 1999’s The Fragile), is a brutal, tension-building groove that fades away elegantly. But “31 Ghosts IV” is something different, as chugging synths suddenly give way to nimble Eddie Van Halen–like wizardry.
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Rolling Stone
Trent Reznor has gone public with the sum total of all the money he made in first week sales after self-releasing his instrumental album Ghosts I-IV: $1,619,420. The album, released on March 2nd in a multitude of different formats at nin.com, “immediately sold out” of its run of 2,500 “Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition” versions (complete with vinyl, deluxe packaging and a Reznor autograph), each with a $300 price tag. In all, 781,917 transactions were made for the album, with people either downloading a quarter of the album for free, downloading the entire album for $5, purchasing a physical copy for $10 or getting the non-ultra-deluxe limited edition version for $75.
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Tiny Mixtapes
Ghosts I-IV is a clear step forward while still managing to stay true to what NIN traditionally ought to sound like and represent. In other words, while there's not a sound or sample on Ghosts I-IV that hasn't been tweaked and mixed by Trent and co. to sound unmistakably NIN, it seems that he's finally allowing some modern influences to seep into his sonic stew as opposed to relegating them to remix albums.
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NME
Nine Inch Nails are inviting fans to create videos for the tracks on their new instrumental album ‘Ghost I-IV’. Trent Reznor has teamed up with YouTube to host a ‘film festival’ for the album asking participants to make clips for the songs they feel most strongly about.
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Sputnik
Finally the home stretch of songs is reached as Ghosts IV begins. This part builds on the uniqueness that “16 Ghosts II” delivered with its danceable new wave sound, still holding that dark element of Nine Inch Nails. “32 Ghosts IV” holds true and has an oddly addictive dance-like beat, but is done in such a dark and creepy manner it is like something that would be playing at a vampire dance club. “35 Ghosts IV” also continues this same sound while “28 Ghosts IV” takes a different route. It is just a little plucking of guitar strings done a distant, but strangely uplifting way. The song, while so simple, it is an incredible standout in a mess of thirty-six songs. “Mess” perhaps is the wrong word to describe Ghosts I-IV though, it is by no means a mess, but instead a very creative piece of work. It explores deep into areas Trent Reznor had not yet covered in any of this other library of Nine Inch Nails albums. Though it has its flaws, Ghosts I-IV is one of the most entertaining ways one could spend listening to music for two hours straight. In the words of Reznor himself, this is not an album, it is a soundtrack for day-dream.
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Metacritic
Nine Inch Nails releases a mostly instrumental album, with some tracks falling under the Creative Commons License instead of being copyrighted.
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Pop Matters
Ghosts I-IV uses the same scratchpad as Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, although in modern parlance it should properly be described as "Dark Ambient". There are 36 tracks, but no songs. There are recurring themes, one of which echoes John Murphy's score for the film 28 Days Later. Indeed, the album holds together in much the same way as a movie. There are four distinct acts. There is a gradual build as you are introduced to all the characters. There are action scenes, there are scenes of pathos.
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Village Voice
Despite its anti-corporate model, Ghosts is a 110-minute endorsement for brand loyalty: For all the cues Reznor seems to be taking from Steve Reich and Eno/Byrne and Richard D. James, it’s basically a minimalist record that coasts on one’s predilection for NINoise. Rampant arpeggios, muted guitars that pop and sproingle, purple fuzz to suffocate an outro, distorted beats to score self-destruction, piano played slow and moody—it’s the same paintbrush he used on last year’s Year Zero, but now powering a lofty ambient record instead of a lofty Manson-style industrial record.
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Houston Press
As with most double albums, some of Ghosts' songs are forgettable, but there are many great ones here as well. Fans of Reznor's underheralded, minimalist piano prowess will be delighted from the start. They'll also likely wear out the tuneful suite that includes tracks 12 and 13 by the end of the next overcast day.
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Gets Song Bpm
This album has an average beat per minute of 130 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 64/179 BPM).
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FMA
Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Ars Technica
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made headlines again this week as he released his new, four-part instrumental album Ghosts I-IV, at a variety of price points, including a $300 super-deluxe package. He's also giving away Ghosts I at no charge, even throwing the tracks up on The Pirate Bay for anyone to download. And it appears to be working quite well for Reznor, who has managed to sell all 2,500 copies of his $300 package without major label backing or much in the way of splashy marketing. If Reznor's earlier experiments in digital distribution failed to recoup their costs, he's clearly learned his lesson: grossing $750,000 in the space of three days isn't a bad haul for any businessperson.
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The Guardian
Ghosts I-IV is a 36-track instrumental record, recorded over ten weeks in the autumn of 2007. Despite rumours surrounding a new album, Trent Reznor had not made any formal announcements - until last night that is, when the album was instantly made available for download.
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RFT
Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV, a brand new 36-track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Jbhifi
Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I-IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Barnes and Noble
It should come as no great surprise that Ghosts then plays like a sketchbook, a place where Reznor jotted down sounds and textures that flitted across his mind and then either took them no further, or decided to spin them into something entirely new for the full album. These aren't songs, they're seeds, and they (appropriately) aren't even graced with titles; they're all dubbed "Ghosts," parts one through 36, and if Reznor didn't spend enough time crafting them into proper songs, don't feel too bad if you don't spend enough time with Ghosts to sort through them, picking out which fragments are powered by a clenched electro beat and which are glassy ambient shards.
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Buzzfeed
His team alerted him to the sample after they got a “panicked” call from a manager “saying they had used the sample of something off Ghosts.” Reznor was told the sample wasn’t initially cleared before being used in “Old Town Road” — and once the song began to rise on the Spotify charts, they asked him what he wanted to do about the situation.
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Turntable
Ghosts I-IV was originally recorded in 2007 following the band's breakup with Interscope Records. Frontman Trent Reznor set out the rules for the recordings as follows: "10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as ... something." He worked with producers Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and treated the recording process as if they were creating a soundtrack. The result was a nearly entirely instrumental album that many have characterized as dark ambient. 36 tracks in all. Released by The Null Corporation on quadruple vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve.
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Wired
Ghosts I-IV is currently the top-selling album on the Amazon MP3 store.
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Fandom
Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008. The team behind the project included Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, studio-collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione. Reznor described the music of Ghosts as "a soundtrack for daydreams", a sentiment echoed by many critics who compared it with the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. The songs are unnamed, and are identified only by their track listing and group number.
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Western Courier
During the nearly two hours “Ghosts” lasts, Reznor covers a lot of ground. Everything from soft piano pieces to the signature sound of heavy, distorted noise is present, as well as a few surprises musically. A few of the later tracks on “Ghost III” feature groovy bass lines, something usually not heard on a Nails release. While the overall sound is not a complete departure from the one-man-band’s signature sound, it is definitely loaded with a few curveballs.
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IGN
The generic song titles are a clever ruse that hide some of the most impressive sounds to ever come from the mind of the Nine Inch Nails frontman. The songs are entirely instrumental with the shortest running a shade less than two minutes in length and the longest clocking at a few seconds less than six minutes. The songs are more than just music. They are what music would be if it could be played through the human eye. If you allow yourself to dream while listening to these tracks, you will find that your mind goes off in so many directions and brings so many different pictures into your subconscious that the music becomes as much of a visual response as an aural response.
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Home Theater
It’s an absolutely amazing sounding collection of instrumentals. Trent Reznor has always put the effort in to deliver high quality sounding material. While albums of the past had such a multitude of tracks and needed to be compressed quite a bit, I feel there is a big relief when listening to Ghosts.
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SF Gate
"Ghosts" is hardly a conventional Nine Inch Nails album in any sense. It's a two-hour, four-part suite made up of 36 instrumental tracks flitting between melancholy piano passages and bursts of white noise with lots of funky interludes in between.
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Home Theater
It’s an absolutely amazing sounding collection of instrumentals. Trent Reznor has always put the effort in to deliver high quality sounding material. While albums of the past had such a multitude of tracks and needed to be compressed quite a bit, I feel there is a big relief when listening to Ghosts.
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SF Gate
"Ghosts" is hardly a conventional Nine Inch Nails album in any sense. It's a two-hour, four-part suite made up of 36 instrumental tracks flitting between melancholy piano passages and bursts of white noise with lots of funky interludes in between.
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Quora
Musically speaking, you have to listen with a great pair of headphones or earbuds. He deploys a lot of sound layering and this is where we see Trent beginning to master his technique. In my assessment it is the foundation of the soundtrack works he has produced with Atticus, a partnership that is amazing and enriching to both Trent's music and my ears. As subtle and soft as the music is, it was a bold choice for Trent to show us the softer side.
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Pop Dose
As a whole, Ghosts I-IV plays like a Tarantino’d instrumental retrospective of the Nine Inch Nails discography thus far. Though it lacks the excitement of Reznor blazing down an entirely new path aesthetically, it’s different, pleasant and easily re-playable, and therefore definitely worth owning — and not just in the free form, which is limited to just the first of the four sections. Five dollars gets you all 36 tracks, a considerable bargain in today’s dollar-per-song music economy.
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Stereogum
This four-disc collection of experiments marked a major turning point in Reznor's career. Reznor's first independent release, Ghosts was released in part as a free download, in reaction to his stormy relationship with Interscope during the promotional period for Year Zero. Ghosts is unlike every other NIN release: a series of unnamed instrumental songs, varying wildly in tone and instrumentation, some completely electronic, others nearly acoustic. And while some of them are quite good, others come across as demo takes, sketches, or just plain unfinished ideas. Reznor intended some of that unfinished quality: He encouraged his fans to sample and remix Ghosts, even hosting some of his favorite pieces on NIN's official website. Reznor even took part in the re-mixing himself: Some bits of Ghosts later became songs on The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtracks. Taken as a work unto itself, Ghosts bores most of the time, but it foreshadowed better work to come.
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Revolver
Without even trying, Trent Reznor and his musical colleague Atticus Ross managed to win a Country Music Association Award today for their production on the sample from Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV" (found on the Ghosts I-IV collection) that wound up in the hit remix of Lil Nas X's juggernaut "Old Town Road."
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Treblezine
Listening to Ghosts I-IV, I am reminded of the eccentric ambient and electronic genius Richard D. James’ alter ego Aphex Twin’s 2001 album drukqs. Coming of age during the techno era of the ’90s, I was a huge admirer of James and his various musical noms de plume that included Aphex Twin, AFX and Polygon Window. I loved the way James played with noises and sounds. To me James is a modern day Mozart. Ridiculed by many for creating intelligent dance music to some, in reality through his many guises James was creating the soundscapes to our future. There’s no doubting that James was ahead of his time, mocked by the masses and respected by few.
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Steve Hoffman
36 instrumental tracks on 2 cds. 9 of those tracks are up for download, any more, and you gotta buy the double disc set for 10 bucks. Seems like a deal. All the songs are said to represent places that Trent Reznor has been over the years, and said he always wanted to make this album, since he started writing music, yet it wouldn't make sense to have it out before now.
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Synthtopia
While the release is definitely an interesting experiment in distribution, it’s less interesting as a musical experiment.Ghosts is basically an informal collection of improvised instrumentals that lean towards that dark ambient and industrial sound. Some tracks echo Eno’s Ambient 2 & Ambient 4, others Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtrack for Twin Peaks, and others have more of a NIN-lite feel.
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Forums
Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I - IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Get Frank
36 tracks of noise would be one way to describe it, or as Trent himself puts it “A soundtrack for daydreams.” But now, for the first time in his life, Trent’s free from the confines of most artists and musicians who are under pressure from record companies to produce hit singles and top-selling albums. The music on Ghosts I-IV is filled with lots of heavy piano melodies that give you that eerie feeling you get when watching a horror movie. Much of the music is accentuated with drum loops and reverb guitar that might well fit comfortably onto the quiet parts of the movie The Crow. So, if you want a moody, introspective, daydreamy, orchestral, instrumental album to say goodbye to summer and settle you into winter, Ghosts is perfect. It’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re a real NIN fan, than you’ll appreciate where Trent’s going with this.
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Srcvinyl
2 LP set by Nine Inch Nails of their 2008 release, Ghosts I - IV, a 36 track instrumental collection. Almost two hours of music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period in the fall of 2007. Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Punk News
As an opening statement of independence, Ghosts I-IV is a disheartening work. Bloated and directionless, it wastes listeners' time and money (a lot of money, in fact. Ghosts I-IV has already netted Reznor more than $1.5 million). Like Radiohead's In Rainbows, buyers can purchase a variety of editions of the record. Ghosts I is available for free download, whereas a deluxe package including Ghosts I-IV in MP3, CD and vinyl formats was $300 before it sold out. More modest fans can pick up the CD/MP3 combo for $10, but be prepared to weep, and not because it's the second coming of "Hurt."
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Trekbbs
What sets this album apart isn't the 36 un-named tracks, or that they're all instrumental, but that it's a direct release available for immediate digital download.
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Srcvinyl
2 LP set by Nine Inch Nails of their 2008 release, Ghosts I - IV, a 36 track instrumental collection. Almost two hours of music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period in the fall of 2007. Ghosts I - IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Punk News
As an opening statement of independence, Ghosts I-IV is a disheartening work. Bloated and directionless, it wastes listeners' time and money (a lot of money, in fact. Ghosts I-IV has already netted Reznor more than $1.5 million). Like Radiohead's In Rainbows, buyers can purchase a variety of editions of the record. Ghosts I is available for free download, whereas a deluxe package including Ghosts I-IV in MP3, CD and vinyl formats was $300 before it sold out. More modest fans can pick up the CD/MP3 combo for $10, but be prepared to weep, and not because it's the second coming of "Hurt."
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Trekbbs
What sets this album apart isn't the 36 un-named tracks, or that they're all instrumental, but that it's a direct release available for immediate digital download.
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Emp
"Ghosts I–IV" is the name of the new collection of NIN-tracks, which appears among others on fourfold vinyl. Nine Inch Nails recorded the 36 instrumental pieces within ten weeks.
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Tunebat
The following tracks will sound good when mixed with Nine Inch Nails - 34 Ghosts IV, because they have similar tempos, adjacent Camelot values, and complementary styles.
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Hermetic
Many people were mixed about the Nine Inch Nails release Zero Hour (I, for one, still absolutely love it); but one thing you can never say about Trent Reznor is that his music - or ideas - has remained stagnant over the years. Love it or hate it, he always brings something different to the table.
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Wikiwand
Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008, by The Null Corporation. It was the band's first independent release, following their split from longtime label Interscope Records the prior year. The album's production team included Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, studio collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.
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Laist
Ghosts I-IV is Nine Inch Nails' seventh full-length release, with 36 instrumental tracks. This release marks another bold step towards revolutionizing the music biz — all of Ghosts is Creative Commons-licensed, meaning Reznor is flipping the bird to traditional copyright laws, once again encouraging fans and haters to share, shred, and remix the tracks.
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Play Google
Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008, by The Null Corporation. It was the band's first independent release, following their split from longtime label Interscope Records the prior year. The album's production team included Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, studio collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.
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BN
Some of it sounds a little like something from a video game (Reznor did create the music for Quake). Some of it sounds like it was intended to be a really hip movie soundtrack (Reznor didn't create the music for "Fight Club," but is often mistakenly credited to have done so). The music is alternately delicate and abrasive, alternately soothing and harrowing. There's probably a bunch of creepy SAT words I could use to try to describe it, but you get the idea. Reznor's out to create some kind of all encompassing musical landscape.
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New Media Rights
Starting at NIN ghost's website, the new album is a 36 song collection, Ghosts I-IV. There are five different ordering options, one of which is to download Ghosts I, 9 songs, for free. Already things are getting interesting. If you want all 36 tracks directly from NIN, the only option is to pay something. A reasonable $5 payment for download only of all 36 songs, or $10 for phsyical cds and accompanying booklet. A souped up $75 version with multi-track and 24-bit 96Khz hi-definition audio is alsoavailable.
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Guitar Player
Ghosts I-IV was released 6:00 p.m. PST March 2, 2008 via NIN.com: a four volume collection of 36 untitled instrumental tracks, nearly two hours of music, recorded over a 10-week period last fall.
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Hydrogenaud
Totally awesome! This is the way all music distribution should be like!
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5 Against 4
His new album, released 2 days ago, is Ghosts I–IV [Halo 26], which comprises four 9-track EPs, each filled entirely with instrumental music. There’s a variety of ways in which the music can be obtained: the first EP, Ghosts I, can be downloaded free of charge; all four can be downloaded for $5 (barely £2.50 at today’s rates); a 2CD edition is available for $10; and, for the really keen, there are “deluxe” and “ultra deluxe” editions, with additional accoutrements. i opted for the 2CD edition which, since it isn’t released until April, entitled me to an immediate download in any format i chose – unsurprisingly, i opted for FLAC – which includes a large number of wallpapers and other graphics, plus a PDF file of the accompanying 40-page book (each track has its own, very beautiful, artwork). It’s not the first time i’ve encountered an artist including a digital download in the purchase of a CD (Björk began doing it recently), but it seems an idea that will probably catch on, since it both allows one to listen immediately, as well as providing the listener who wants it with a physical object.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I – IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I – IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.
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Resident Advisor
New NIN record is experimental electronica and instrumentals. The rules: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. First 9 tracks are free, whole album $5 download.
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Cool Hunting
Ghosts I-IV is an all-instrumental album that Trent Reznor describes as "the result of working from a very visual perspective—dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams." In ten intense weeks of recording with the use of numerous instruments and arrangements, NIN is able to produce an updated sound that also maintains the edge they're known for.
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Ultimate Guitar
I would reccomend this album, not only to NIN fans, but also to fans of music in general. If you're looking for 'With Teeth' or 'The Downward Spiral', you won't find them here, only musical elements of them. But the musicianship is undeniable, and originality was always something that this band did. It would still be better to hear about 14 tracks with vocals, in my opinion, but this album shows a genuine love for creativity that is sometimes left behind in this genre.
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Mark McBride
I think it’s pretty good. It is definitely the most mellow thing he’s ever put out. Some of the tracks are quite impressive in terms of intricate sound. I can’t wait to hear this album in digital surround sound because it has a precise detail that you just don’t get in most music and surround sound would really bring that out.
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