Nine Inch Nails (a.k.a. Trent Reznor) has come out with a new album, Ghosts I-IV. Originally meant to be an instrumental EP, it ballooned into a 4 EP, 36 track ambient instrumental piece.
It has yet to be released commercially, but he is currently selling it online. You can get the first 9 tracks for free and purchase the rest of the album for $5.
I bought it, and I think it's fantastic. Very Brian Eno-esque.
Creepy, multiple disc instrumental album without song titles? Someone really wants to be Aphex Twin. It's OK, nothing he didn't do to much greater effect on The Fragile.
i feel sorry for Reznor...there always seems to be massive expectation that he has to deliver a new album that is hugely inventive and original both in comparison to his previous work as well as the work of others
but then again...if it's not good...it's not good...but at the least it should be tried on its own merits
Yeah, same here. NIN hasn't delivered for me since The Fragile, I've been utterly disappointed with everything since, it seems stale, over produced and just downright boring.
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Irrelevant band since The Fragile. I don't get why people keep ejaculating over their releases, or expressing disappointment as if it's any kind of surprise.
Well, the way you say it, it means they used to be relevant, meaning that they do have the ability to produce something good. And I suppose people hope that happens with their new release.
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And his point was that, in the three releases since The Fragile, they've produced irrelevant, derivative bs, so there doesn't seem to be much point in continually expecting more if you keep getting disappointed. If you believe The Fragile was their/his last relevant work, then they/he haven't/hasn't been relevant this millenium.
The "I question everything" schtick got old a couple of years ago, now you're just on vacation.
I can understand that. Though I figure that people that really enjoyed their album(s) at some point, might still hope they will come up with something good again.
I am not sure what you mean with questioning everything...I don't...at least I don't think so.
As for the rest you said, what I said above applies to that as well.
Idiots because they give the new stuff a chance, or because they are surprised it isn't to their liking? Or perhaps both?
Now I have only heard the 9 tracks that were free...I decided I'd only buy if I liked them enough, and I really only gave them a listen out of curiousity not because I expected greatness. It didn't dissapoint because I wasn't expecting much. While I did think it was a decent album, it wasn't groundbreaking or fresh, and it was a bit boring after awhile. I guess they can't all be "In Raibows", "Anonymous", and "Fear of Blank Planet"s. Still it sure as hell beats "With Teeth" and "Year Zero", though that isn't saying much.
So therefore I agree with you in this way: If people keep getting let down by a band, it is only because they are in denial about the said band's musical direction and creativity. Trent obviously has either reached his pinnacle in music or is just uninspired. Rarely does a band return to form and reconnect with former fans after it has disillussioned them.
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It's because he was a drugs and depression fiend, and was liked by loads of people who thought they were that, too. He just happened to hit the mark with a fluke album.
He was popular in the Manson sense. Now he has much less of a fanbase because they've all grown up, and so has he, and he's making shit music.
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