That is definitely the weirdest NIN track I have heard. Going to take a few more listens to digest. Similar feeling as NTAE for me, which I grew to love.
I literally just finished watching Westworld S01E09 moments ago, went to ETS, downloaded the song and now I'm kind of having an existential crisis. I mean, these lyrics can't be a coincidence, right? Am I even real?
Whoa...seems like I wasn't too far off with my experimental jazz/miles Davis prediction yesterday! This is exactly what I envisioned the lp sounding like.
Idk how this song will translate into a live setting.
It was shared on a radio station's Facebook page. Shazam identified the track as "Ahead Of Ourselves":
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And here's the rip that TheBang shared earlier of "God Break Down The Door":
http://www.mediafire.com/file/w7h786...zQrdX-E2iY.m4a
Definitely not what I expected, but as with any artist releasing something like this....
The fact that I know it'll piss off a lot of fans sorta makes me like it more? Not always the case (sometimes I'm in that group) but meh, it is what it is. People will whine, nobody will care, we'll all move on.
DAT SAX THOUGH.
Reminds me of David Bowie's Sue (Or In A Season of Crime). Blackstar album version.
Wow I love the new direction. Thanks for the link!
So the ghost of Bowie has possessed Trent?
initial reaction (could very easily change over time)
way too repetitive lyrically/musically - a common theme for a while now unfortunately
Last edited by center27j; 05-16-2018 at 10:58 AM.
This is amazing. It's not a 'radio friendly single' that's for sure.
Rolling drum&bass esque rhythm undernearth, odd cycling electronica undertone, and then that weird constant saxophone being played - and Trents bowie esque singing.
NIN has always been about change - and this is about the most radical change on musical direction i could have imagined!
Bravo, i like it.
So... that was... not what I was expecting. Totally agree with all the Bowie comparisons. I like that they really went in another direction. I will have to hear it in context.
1 more hour til lunch when I can blast this in my car...could only listen to a snippet in the bathroom so far.
This is amazing. I love literally everything about this. It's like a Radiohead/Bowie collaboration. And it's interesting to hear him sing with vibrato. He's always seemed to go out of his way to keep his voice flat in recordings, though a natural vibrato slips into live performances, and of course, his backing vocal for Tori Amos. I'm really digging this whole thing.
P.S. What's up with so many people not knowing how to open a .zip file?
While it takes some time to digest the change in direction i very much approve! Better this than another Came Back Haunted. Is that some sort of de-tuned 'closer' synth at the end?
Last edited by Reaps; 05-16-2018 at 11:08 AM.
So, everyone who said Atticus was keeping NIN from changing it up has got to be eating their words after this trilogy. I have no idea what this song would be like live. Trent wasn’t kidding when he said they decided to delay it to keep it from feeling like more of the same and I’m excited to see what this full thing is like, because that was basically “NIN does Blackstar” and that is not a bad thing to be.
I am not sure what I think since I need to listen a few more times, but 100% I am happy with the change in vocals. I am a little tired of the talking, whispering non-singing that seems to have been on the rise since Year Zero.
I think people have it wrong here. I don't think he's copying Bowie; I think this is a song about Bowie and his passing and how Trent has dealt with it: "Remove the pain and push it back in." I don't think this is the "direction" of the album; I think this song is a one-off in which Trent pays tribute to/deals with the loss of a friend. That's what I believe.
Last edited by streetman; 05-16-2018 at 11:14 AM.
I actually really love the whole crooning style of singing he does in the first half. Never would have thought he would pursue that kind of singing style, but he sounds awesome. I could easily to a whole album of him in this mode.
listened now a few times, but that second part of the song is dope.
So is that a computer aided vibrato or has TR been holding back all these years?