Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It was the band’s first independent release following their split from longtime label Interscope Records in 2007. The album reached number 14 in the US, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. On March 26, 2020, the band released two free follow-up albums: Ghosts V: Together, and Ghosts VI: Locusts.
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Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It was the band’s first independent release following their split from longtime label Interscope Records in 2007. The album reached number 14 in the US, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. On March 26, 2020, the band released two free follow-up albums: Ghosts V: Together, and Ghosts VI: Locusts. A YouTube-based film festival was also announced, inviting fans to visually interpret the music and post their submissions, but no mention has been made of the festival since its announcement. The tracks are unnamed, identified only by their track listing and group number. It is an almost entirely instrumental album, and it is initially intended to be a five-track EP, but the final release consisted of four nine-track EPs, totaling 36 tracks. The music was released under a Creative Commons license and in a variety of differing packages and prices, including a USD 300 Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition, without prior announcement. It has been compared to the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, and Reznor described the music of Ghosts as “a soundtrack for daydreams”, a sentiment echoed by critics, who compared it to the works of BrianEno andRobert Fripp. The core creative team behind the project was Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder. Live-band member Alessandro Cortini and studio musicians Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione also contributed instrumental performances on select tracks.
Reznor has described the project as “an experiment”, and explained the group’s process: “Whatever happens during that time gets released as .. something.’” The album foreshadowed the following stream of soundtrack albums recorded and labeled together with director David Fincher: The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Gone Girl. The band’s next album, Ghosts VI, will be released in March 2020, and is expected to be Reznor’s last as a member of the band. It will be the first of three consecutive albums produced by Reznor and Ross, including three consecutive collaborations with director Finchers: Gone Girl, The Social network, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoos. The group will also release a single EP of the material, which will be called Ghosts I–III. The first track on Ghosts I-IV is titled “The First Day of the Second World” and is the opening track on the album, entitled “I’m So Excited To Be Here”. The second track, titled ‘The Second Day Of The Third World,’ is the second track to be released on the same day as the album’s “Ghosts II: The Third Day of The Fourth World’. The third track, ‘I�’, is the title of the fourth Ghosts album, which was released on March 2, 2008.
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