[sonicl]

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.

Trent Reznor explains, "I've been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn't have made sense until this point. This collection of music is the result of working from a very visual perspective - dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams. I'm very pleased with the result and the ability to present it directly to you without interference. I hope you enjoy the first four volumes of Ghosts."

This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as... something.

The team: Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder and myself with some help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. Rob Sheridan collaborated with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create the accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.

We began improvising and let the music decide the direction. Eyes were closed, hands played instruments and it began. Within a matter of days it became clear we were on to something, and a lot of material began appearing. What we thought could be a five song EP became much more. I invited some friends over to join in and we all enjoyed the process of collaborating on this.

The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we're able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we've ever created.

More volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future.

- Trent Reznor, March 2, 2008

[ZEROpumpkins]

Aww, Instrumental...
Thought it was gonna be a new album and I was thinking "Sweet, Year Zero was great so this one will be like a follow up or something"

I'm wearing my NIN shirt right now as a matter of fact.

[Destroyed]

I'm actually liking this album more than anything else I've heard by them.

[batreleaser]

fuck NIN, well new NIN, i thin the fragile was far and way trent's best record, its really experimental and dark sounding, and its fuckin great, and for some reason its totally overlooked by NIN fans. ive always though pretty hate machine and downward spiral was just watered down industrial for alternative rock kids too pussy to just go all out and listen to some ministry or skinny puppy, and his new records are just like radio new wave with trents vocals, but ima throw on the fragile right now, peace.

ps.
trent's lyrics are ocasionally briliant, but much more often retarted, hes an extremly inconsistent artist, but his voice rules.

[Everyneurotic]

like i've said to almost everything having to do with nin for like the past 4 or 5 years:

meh.

[atsonicpark]

trent is an idiot. He has a lyric in one of his songs that goes "I'm feeling a feeling." That pretty much sums up NIN.

[batreleaser]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

trent is an idiot. He has a lyric in one of his songs that goes "I'm feeling a feeling." That pretty much sums up NIN.

hahaha

[krastian]

Year Zero sucked, With Teeth was ok....I'll still listen to it. Maybe he'll capture some of the weirdness of Further Down the Spiral with this here instrumental album.

[dionysusundone]

It's pretty cool. His instrumental stuff's his best...like fucking "Pilgrimage" on the Fragile. That shit owns.

[ZEROpumpkins]

I don't really get the hate for Year Zero. That's my second favourite record by him.