Ghosts I-IV

[Moozik: Nine Inch Nails - 33 Ghosts IV]

I really applaud what Trent Reznor is doing by releasing his new album for download and because of that I happily handed over my $5 last night to show my support. I loved the fact that you then had 3 choices of files you could download. LAME encoded mp3s at 320kbps, lossless FLAC, or Apple's lossless format. I thought to myself wow, this guy really gets it. So I made my selection and received the email with my one time only download link.

And that's pretty much as far as I got on the official NIN download site. The download servers were still totally swamped and I was getting nowhere fast. After double checking that they'd taken my cash, I just ended up downloading everything via bittorrent instead. Much faster.

The initial verdict? Well Ghosts I-IV is really a 4 CD set comprising 36 tracks so it will take a while to go through them all a couple of times at least. But so far I like it. All instrumentals, some of them quite minimal & quiet. Very different than other NIN releases. I've read that some people hate it because it's not Year Zero pt2 or something. But then it wasn't meant to be and you really need to take it for what it is. So more to follow I'm sure as the album grows on me over the next couple of weeks.

All the tracks have their own artwork encoded too. Which I thought was a nice touch.