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 Unfinished atmospheric sound samples? March 4, 2008
B. Nitz (Philly, PA)
12 out of 44 found this review helpful
This is utter garbage! I have every NiN album on hard copy, love them all in their own rights. This music is not fit for public consumption. It may be useful to someone that needs samples for creating industrial sounding music. I would call this a white label samples album, it really is just boring noise. For those that said "this is like classical but better" are gravely mistaken. The music here is generally unlistenable. If you want a lot of atmospheric, boring, NiN produced MUZAK to sleep by, this is it!
 Not bad March 3, 2008
This Is Not
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
This isn't a bad release as it is a lot of new material. It is all instrumental though so don't be surprised not to hear Reznor's voice. My only complaint is that you pay $5 on Amazon for the mp3 downloads yet you can pay the same price and buy it directly from Nine Inch Nails and you get a lossless copy. You can also pay $10 and get the CD release along with immediate lossless downloads.
As I said, this album isn't bad but it definitely isn't Reznor's best work. Think of it as more of a collection of ideas that wouldn't normally make a Nine Inch Nails record.
I am sooo glad that not everyone likes this one March 5, 2008
Nervous Pervis (Dallas, TX USA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is an important work, and the fact that some of the hardcore NIN fans don't like it means that Trent is growing. Some of you need to think about that.
 NIN'S HALO TWENTY SIX IS STUNNING!! March 6, 2008
Fernando Acosta (Miami, FL USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Ghosts is amazing. Short, to the point instrumental songs, some reminiscent of the beauty of Still, other's recall the best moments on The Fragile, a handfull of remix-types moving from one genre and style to the another. There are few hints of pop from later albums only shimmers of the ghost of future directions Trent Reznor and NIN are/will take, displaying the always evolving and maturing prowess as a musician.
Each track works more like a soundtrack than a standard NIN release, the deserted "1 Ghosts I", aggresive "4 Ghosts I" and a sleazy "8 Ghosts I" are not only surprising to the listener but hold the essence of what NIN has been about last few albums. New directions are hinted at the fast paced electronic beats of "14 Ghosts II" where middle-eastern/country- like guitarthings dance around a bonfire and then decide to go for a swim, an acoustic/electronic blend we haven't been treated to since The Fragile. "15 Ghosts II", is a breathy scared monster that works as a segue into more lighter slippy-nuxes of "16 Ghosts II".
The Third tome deals with more industrial grooves throughout, think Things Falling Apart vs Year Zero. Moments of grace and elegance of "21 Ghosts III" go where Thomas Newman hasn't been to but yearns to go, but that Vangelis has already been to, like the following track. Sounds move from rave to police car chases easily and without ruining the fluidity of the album.
And Ghosts IV, which are probably my favorite for their variety, execution, and knowing nods to past NIN titles. "28 Ghosts IV" is reminiscent of the acoustic version of TDTWWA while "29 Ghosts IV" is a hands on jamming session. "31 Ghosts IV"'s aggressiveness is not cold and icy but vibrating and alive with energy (not anger); there's a stunning section of guitar legend's Adrian Belew's in there and throughout. "32 Ghosts IV"'s thumping quiet beat is soothing as it is menacing, and are those eraser straws they're blowing on? Whatever it is, it sounds awe strikingly beautiful, and even more so as the album heads for it's climax reaching a setting the strays on The Fragile back on track with none of it's despair, just it's patience.
This album is as imaginative as every other NIN effort, making reinvention sound like an easy task. This is obviously the score to a movie we have never seen, and that exists in the mind of it's creator, that I hope, they will one day show us. NIN has always been a visual experience (unreleased Broken movie, TDS and The Fragile packaging, Mark Romanek videos) where Rob Sheridan continues making -- and improving, NIN's image. All photography that accompany the album is better than well suited: lonely swamps, aqueous gels, and many hands fiddling with distortions.
I don't think fans of any band have ever been treated to something like this, at this price and of this quality. Experimental at it's core, progressive in it's execution, lush and insightful, Trent and Co. have given us fans a late Valentine's present that, although unexpected, is more than welcome.
The best NIN album ever March 8, 2008
Manny Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA)
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
Trent Reznor without a doubt came back from the "dead" with Year Zero. But this collection of 36 instrumental tracks (at the irresistible price of $5) simply reinvented not just his own music, blowing everyone away. Ghosts I-IV, like Radiohead's In Rainbows is taking the music business by storm, helping reinvent a space that has been needing an overhaul for a very long time.
I should not have to tell you to get this album: the price tag should make the purchase decision very easy. But even if it were $20 or $30 I would say the same thing: this is the best NIN album ever!
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