Nine Inch Nails releases

This is great! Also, I do not hear old-school NIN in this at all, unless we're calling With Teeth old-school now.

Bag of dirt pre-ordered. (I hope that's not what it is, but I'm certainly not expecting a CD or anything.)

xp I'll defer to you on that -- since I'm not well-versed in the genre I tend to judge on more superficial resemblances, and this reminds me of what I was hearing from NIN in the late 80s. It's probably just me. Anyway, this is the best new song I've heard from anyone in months.

ime it's sort of like if a with teeth song were playing behind a synth line from a yaz record

Yeah, it's very "what if we mashed up Only You with The Hand That Feeds"

Not bad.

Trent's been listening to synthwave.

not just listening, but watching the videos as well.
the bit at the start is very synthwave before it all kicks off.
i like it.
a lot.

isn't there an OPN video just like this

I haven't listened to a new NIN song since WITHA TEETHA but I gotta say, this is pretty good

With you on that. This is p good. Seems like he found his drum sound preset again, after years of having lost it (and this is a good thing)

I love it, very "The Hand That Feeds."

wait a second. there are nin fans who don't like the fragile?.

I like about three or four songs from it, but the rest is a slog.

This is great!

I definitely felt that way about The Fragile when it first came out (I was 13 and just wanted some freakin NOISE!!!) but after nearly 2 decades and a few dozen listens I think it's really great

Fragile Left is often my favorite NIN album.

Conversely, Fragile Right is my least-favorite.

serious question, I got off after With Teeth, are any of the other albums worth hearing

YES

Year Zero especially is the perfect soundtrack to American life in 2017.

year zero and hesitation marks are both v good records that i think only suffer from being a little too long

Fragile Left is often my favorite NIN album.

Conversely, Fragile Right is my least-favorite.

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, July 14, 2017 6:53 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, otm

tbh this guy is pretty consistent in what he does. I wouldn't say any of his albums is significantly better or worse than the others

Downward Spiral still pretty easily his best work though IMO.

This new one has an excellent beat, but my tolerance for his breathy/nassal vocal style and dumb rhymes continues to want with time. Having said that, that harmonising part in the second pre-chorus is really cool.

New song/video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8nAqDu3gI

Very good.

oh I like this

This is great.

always love to hear trent's higher register

I love the goopy bass sound on this, whatever's making that. I think it's a synth.

been chilling in the studio with alessandro cortini

Definitely a treat. Two for two here!

yea I like this one too, well done

is there a new LP coming after this er what?

He's doing 3 EPs, of which this is the second.

Another good one! Very promising, though I'd much rather see these songs paired on a 12 track album instead of ep's of varying quality.

The final track on this ep is 11 mins long.

Just got my download of the EP.

1. Less Than - 3:30
2. The Lovers - 4:10
3. This Isn't the Place - 4:44
4. Not Anymore - 3:07
5. The Background World - 11:44

Listening now.

OK, first impressions: All the songs are good, if minimal. No sonic or compositional surprises; he's playing to his base. No really cringeworthy couplets, though, which is a big plus. The last song is 11:44, but seven minutes of that are a loop of the main riff gradually devolving into crunchy noise. Definitely worth it if you're a fan, but not likely to make anyone into a fan.

is there more good eurorack content?

No really cringeworthy couplets

Silence/violence is pretty cringeworthy.

overused != cringeworthy

There is a significant overlap.

A long and very interesting interview.

He's got kind of a point about LP versus EP -- if I go to listen to a full album, I'm more likely to skip through to the songs I want to hear, but an EP, especially the way the NIN releases have been assembled, is pretty cohesive and I'll let the whole thing play out.

(there are about a hundred things I've wanted to comment on but that one was a quick thought and I don't want to bomb the thread before anyone else reads the interview!)

that was pretty good - but this interviewer is a bit confrontational, no?

lol @ this

Just this morning, me and my two older boys were sitting in the hotel restaurant. Their mom has played the new EP for them a couple times. They’re like, “My favorite song is ‘Less Than’.” That’s sweet, but then I’m thinking, Don’t I say ‘fuck’ in that one? Same thing when they were at sound check: What song don’t I say ‘fuck’ in?

it's condensed from a couple conversations, so I'd imagine asking some questions and seeing that Reznor's not really a defensive guy and could take prodding led to more interesting questions

The digression into dealing with the parents of your kids' schoolmates when everyone knows you as the dude who sang "I want to fuck you like an animal" was great.

that was pretty good - but this interviewer is a bit confrontational, no?

Confrontational in this "hey, you wanna expand on that a little?"/"I don't really get where you're going with this" sense is vastly preferable to confrontational in the German-interviewer "Why is your new album so much worse than the one before?" sense.

fucking german interviewers, man

Thought this was an even better interview.