Gone are the days when Nine Inch Nails releases were once every half decade. Trent Reznor is incredibly more prolific these days and in the end it is the fans that benefit as most things stamped with the NIN brand, are usually pretty damn good!
A nice surprise greeted us all this past week when Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) released a continuation of the experimental and instrumental GHOSTS series.
Dropping two albums on the unsuspecting public – GHOSTS V: Together and GHOSTS VI: Locusts the albums act as an incredible soundtrack to this new (temporary) world of isolation we each find ourselves in due to the COVID-19 pandemic!
The albums have been my constant companion and soundtrack over the past couple of days whilst I adapt to working from home and staying isolated from the rest of the world in the hope that we can stem this virulent disaster.
Word from NIN HQ:
FRIENDS-
WEIRD TIMES INDEED…
AS THE NEWS SEEMS TO TURN EVER MORE GRIM BY THE HOUR, WE’VE FOUND OURSELVES VACILLATING WILDLY BETWEEN FEELING LIKE THERE MAY BE HOPE AT TIMES TO UTTER DESPAIR – OFTEN CHANGING MINUTE TO MINUTE. ALTHOUGH EACH OF US DEFINE OURSELVES AS ANTISOCIAL-TYPES WHO PREFER BEING ON OUR OWN, THIS SITUATION HAS REALLY MADE US APPRECIATE THE POWER AND NEED FOR CONNECTION.
MUSIC – WHETHER LISTENING TO IT, THINKING ABOUT IT OR CREATING IT – HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT HELPED US GET THROUGH ANYTHING – GOOD OR BAD. WITH THAT IN MIND, WE DECIDED TO BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL AND COMPLETE THESE NEW GHOSTS RECORDS AS A MEANS OF STAYING SOMEWHAT SANE.
GHOSTS V: TOGETHER IS FOR WHEN THINGS SEEM LIKE IT MIGHT ALL BE OKAY, AND GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS… WELL, YOU’LL FIGURE IT OUT.
IT MADE US FEEL BETTER TO MAKE THESE AND IT FEELS GOOD TO SHARE THEM. MUSIC HAS ALWAYS HAD A WAY OF MAKING US FEEL A LITTLE LESS ALONE IN THE WORLD… AND HOPEFULLY IT DOES FOR YOU, TOO. REMEMBER, EVERYONE IS IN THIS THING TOGETHER AND THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN SOON.
BE SMART AND SAFE AND TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER.
WITH LOVE,
TRENT & ATTICUS
HERE’S WHERE YOU CAN LISTEN RIGHT NOW:
FREE DOWNLOAD FROM US
GHOSTS V: TOGETHER ON STREAMING SERVICES
GHOSTS VI: LOCUSTS ON STREAMING SERVICES