Is it an EP? Is it an LP? It certainly is NIN (with saxophone)

June 24, 2018 1:27 PM

BAD WITCH has been released. 30 minutes of NIN being NIN where they are now. Trent talks about the album and other things. Worth a read and a listen.
posted by hippybear (15 comments total)

One of my favorite things I learned about Trent when I first found NiN (on the Fragile tour, I went to see A Perfect Cirle who were opening for them) was that we both played Tenor Sax in high school marching band. Thanks for the post!
posted by Drumhellz at 2:16 PM on June 24, 2018

Saxophones!
posted by Artw at 2:18 PM on June 24, 2018

SAXOPHONES
posted by thelonius at 2:18 PM on June 24, 2018

Toot toot!

/menacing industrial beat, synthesizer squiggle
posted by Artw at 2:19 PM on June 24, 2018

Also a track where he attempts, like, melodic singing of a kind I've not heard from him before?
posted by Artw at 2:22 PM on June 24, 2018

In a recent interview it became clear that Trent, who I like but who is kind of going through a bit of an uncool daddish phase, is only really aware of Taylor Swift as "what the kids are into these days". We should, like, band together and make him a care package with some Beyonce and some Janae Monae or whatever.
posted by Artw at 2:30 PM on June 24, 2018 [2 favorites]

Trent Reznor says David Bowie helped him see ‘the light at the end of the tunnel’

That 1995 Davide Bowie/Nine Inch Nails concert is incredible.
posted by Artw at 2:37 PM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Maybe tell him about the Alabama Shakes and other new bands!
posted by thelonius at 2:51 PM on June 24, 2018

From art's link:

Reznor has also given his verdict on Kanye West’s ‘Ye’ album. “The guy’s lost his fucking mind: that’s the thinkpiece,” he said. “His record sucked and that’s it.”

Haven't heard the new stuff from NIN yet but I still love Trent, man.
posted by nevercalm at 3:05 PM on June 24, 2018 [10 favorites]

I was telling someone yesterday that the sax made me feel like I was listening to the soundtrack of an angrier, darker version of SimCity 2000.
posted by mittens at 5:11 PM on June 24, 2018 [2 favorites]

I was thinking track 3 could be part of some cybernoir CD-ROM game with VR sequences done in KPT Bryce.

But in a good way.

(Brian Eno’s head probably appears as a floating hologram at some point)
posted by Artw at 5:18 PM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Goodness this is just delightful. Also I've apparently missed two EPs and two actual albums over the last few years. Some of this is...really damn good...
posted by hototogisu at 7:06 PM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Now playing Hesitation Marks. I love that Trent discovered The Knife. Thanks hippybear!
posted by hototogisu at 7:23 PM on June 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Opener is a ball-tearer. Classic NIN.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:23 PM on June 24, 2018

Maybe I'm only speaking for myself, but one of the odd little contradictions of being an industrial fan is that appreciation of dirty, scruffy, nasty sounding stuff alongside much more heavily produced sounding music with the same aesthetics. The first song sounds like badly-recorded old-NIN, the second has something about it I like on first listen, the third starts making Faust-y Krautrock noises and I'm like "Er, what? Whoah!". Already know God Break Down The Door so I'm going to go early and say this is a decent album/EP (Bad Witch is about 1m17s longer than Reign In Blood and if that's NOT AN ALBUM we can all go home and stare at the walls and wait till we die because fuck everything).
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 9:31 PM on June 25, 2018