Disc 1
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. 1 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails |  |
| 2. 2 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 3. 3 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 4. 4 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 5. 5 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 6. 6 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 7. 7 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 8. 8 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 9. 9 Ghosts I ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 10. 10 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 11. 11 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 12. 12 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 13. 13 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 14. 14 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 15. 15 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 16. 16 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 17. 17 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 18. 18 Ghosts II ~ Nine Inch Nails | | Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. 19 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 2. 20 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 3. 21 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 4. 22 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 5. 23 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 6. 24 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 7. 25 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 8. 26 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 9. 27 Ghosts III ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 10. 28 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 11. 29 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 12. 30 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 13. 31 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 14. 32 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 15. 33 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 16. 34 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 17. 35 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
| 18. 36 Ghosts IV ~ Nine Inch Nails | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor. | | Personnel: Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, Atticus Ross, Brian Viglione. | | Released independently for online download without any advanced notice in March 2008, GHOSTS I-IV is a 36-track instrumental album that reveals Nine Inch Nails at its most experimental and intriguing. Always adept at musical moods and textures, NIN mastermind Trent Reznor has been known to let his angst-ridden vocals and lyrics overshadow his songs, but on this generous collection, which follows YEAR ZERO by less than 12 months, his compositions are allowed to breath on their own, and the results are disarmingly diverse, though, naturally, never exceedingly sunny. | | Working closely with co-producer/songwriter Atticus Ross and frequently calling upon guitarists Adrian Belew (King Crimson) and Alessandro Cortini, Reznor treats GHOSTS as a score to some dark imaginary David Lynch-like film (in fact, the two auteurs collaborated on LOST HIGHWAY). While some tracks trade in Reznor's signature moody techno sound ("3 Ghosts I"), others mix acoustic-guitar strumming with burst of industrial noise (the subsequent "4 Ghosts I"). Elsewhere, Reznor employs dulcimer ("22 Ghosts III") and marimba ("30 Ghosts IV"), letting an unusually organic aesthetic creep in. Challenging but never inaccessible, GHOSTS I-IV is the work of a mature artist operating in a compelling creative zone. | | Released independently for online download without any advance notice in March 2008, GHOSTS I-IV is a 36-track instrumental album that reveals Nine Inch Nails at its most experimental and intriguing. Always adept at musical moods and textures, NIN mastermind Trent Reznor has been known to let his angst-ridden vocals and lyrics overshadow his songs, but on this generous collection, which follows YEAR ZERO by less than 12 months, his compositions are allowed to breathe on their own, and the results are disarmingly diverse--though, naturally, never exceedingly sunny. | | Working closely with co-producer/songwriter Atticus Ross and frequently calling upon guitarists Adrian Belew (King Crimson) and Alessandro Cortini, Reznor treats GHOSTS as a score to some dark imaginary David Lynch-like film (in fact, the two auteurs collaborated on LOST HIGHWAY). While some tracks trade in Reznor's signature moody techno sound ("3 Ghosts I"), others mix acoustic-guitar strumming with bursts of industrial noise (the subsequent "4 Ghosts I"). Elsewhere, Reznor employs dulcimer ("22 Ghosts III") and marimba ("30 Ghosts IV"), letting an unusually organic aesthetic creep in. Challenging but never inaccessible, GHOSTS I-IV is the work of a mature artist operating in a compelling creative zone. | | Roughly a year after Year Zero -- a year marked by lots of sniping with his record company first about their clueless promotion then devolving into a tirade about their general uselessness -- Trent Reznor broke free of Interscope/Universal and became a free agent, releasing music where and when he wanted. 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. Even fanatics might be hard-pressed to give Ghosts such a careful listen as it's simply not meant to be so closely observed. It's meant to be taken as surface, perhaps skimmed for samples, but generally to be used as mildly unsettling mood music -- a specialty of Reznor's, to be sure, but he's better and scarier when his ideas are more finely honed than they are here. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 04/08/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : HALO-HALO26C | | Label : The Null Corporation | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00766929908628 |
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| Professional Reviews |
| Rolling Stone (p.64)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Reznor's own hyperdetailed language defines the set: heaving synthesizers, doleful piano, alien-insect noises..."Uncut (p.98)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The electronically fuzzed-up guitar pieces like 'Track 8' are twisted and dark." Kerrang (Magazine)
(p.48)
- "The moods encapsulated here draw from an impressively wide palette....[With] bona fide classics, as stirring and evocative as anything released under the Nine Inch Nails banner." |
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