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Nine Inch Nails’ Final EP Arriving This Summer!
I absolutely love what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing with their new Nine Inch Nails music, and hope it sets a precedent for other bands to follow. You see, instead of waiting years for a new album, which we’ll digest and throw away in a few weeks, Reznor and Ross have been creating short EPs that they’ve been releasing as completed. It began with December 2016’s Not the Actual Events and then continued with last July’s excellent Add Violence with the promise of a third and final EP in 2018. Well, here we are, and NIN is expected to complete this first trilogy this coming June.
Speaking to BBC Radio 6 on Thursday, Reznor said the EP should be out prior to the start of the band’s European festival tour in June, reports CoS.
In explaining why it took nearly a year for the third EP to come to fruition, Reznor said: “We started out with a rigid concept, having not written them all. As we finished Add Violence we found ourselves… it felt too predictable. It felt like we were forcing things. Musically and storytelling-wise. The reason this has been delayed is because it took us a while for—what has become the third EP—to reveal itself to us.”
“We’re in the process of finishing this right now and should be out before the shows take place,” Reznor added.
Reznor has been extremely candid about the process, speaking as to how he likes being able to reinvent himself on the fly and be able to turn out more relevant works at a quicker speed. I love hearing that instead of forcing the issue, they let the new sound come to them, which more than guarantees something once again unique and special as the former two EPs. While many experiments in the music world have failed, this may be the one that’s connected with me the most and I hope it’s just the beginning.
What do you guys think?
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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