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Ghosts I–IV

February 07, 2023

Ghosts I–IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by The Null Corporation on March 2, 2008. It was the band's first independent release following their split from longtime label Interscope Records in 2007. The production team included Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, studio collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.

Ghosts I–IV
Studio album by
Nine Inch Nails
ReleasedMarch 2, 2008 (2008-03-02)
RecordedOctober–December 2007
GenreDark ambient[1]
Length109:56
LabelThe Null Corporation
Producer
Nine Inch Nails chronology
Year Zero Remixed
(2007) 		Ghosts I–IV
(2008) 		The Slip
(2008)
Halo numbers chronology
Halo 25
(2007) 		Halo 26
(2008) 		Halo 27
(2008)

Reznor described Ghosts as "a soundtrack for daydreams," a sentiment echoed by critics, who compared it to the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. The tracks are unnamed, identified only by their track listing and group number, and are almost entirely instrumental. Although conceived as a five-track EP, the final release consisted of four nine-track EPs, totaling 36 tracks. The album was released under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA) and in a variety of differing packages and prices, including a $300 deluxe edition, without prior announcement. A YouTube-based film festival was also announced, inviting fans to visually interpret the music and post their submissions, but no mention has been made of the festival since its announcement.

Ghosts I–IV received positive reviews; critics praised its experimentalism and unorthodox release. It reached number 14 in the US, and was nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, the first time music released under a Creative Commons license had been nominated for a Grammy Award.

Ghosts preceded a series of soundtrack albums recorded by Reznor and Ross, including four collaborations with director David Fincher. In March 2020, Nine Inch Nails released two follow-up albums to Ghosts I–IV: Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts.[2]

Production

Recording and music

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor announced in 2007 that the band had completed its contractual obligations to its record label, Interscope Records, and would no longer be working with the company. He also revealed that the band would likely distribute its next album independently, possibly in a fashion similar to Saul Williams' 2007 album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, which Reznor produced.[3]

Following the Performance 2007 Tour in support of the band's previous album Year Zero (2007), Reznor set out to make a record "with very little forethought".[4] Ghosts I–IV originated from an experiment: "The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as... something."[5] Reznor explained, "I've been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn't have made sense until this point".[6]

The core creative team behind the project was Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder. Live-band member Alessandro Cortini and studio musicians Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione also contributed instrumental performances on select tracks.[5] Reznor described the band's early intentions for the project as "an experiment", and explained the group's process: "When we started working with the music, we would generally start with a sort of visual reference that we had imagined: a place, or a setting, or a situation. And then attempt to describe that with sound and texture and melody. And treat it, in a sense, as if it were a soundtrack."[7]

The musicians created the album tracks through improvisation and experimentation. As a result, the initial plan to release a single EP of the material expanded to include the increasing amount of material.[8] Viglione contributed percussion to tracks 19 and 22. He stated that Reznor's instructions to him were to "build a drumkit. Piece together any stuff that you want to bang on; rent what you want to rent. Have fun and... be creative—See where your mind and your ideas take you."[9] Viglione's makeshift drum kit included a 50-gallon trash can, a pair of water cooler jugs, and a cookie tray with a chain across it.[9] Alessandro Cortini is credited on a total of ten tracks from Ghosts for his contributions on guitar, bass guitar, dulcimer, and electronics. Cortini was brought onto the project two weeks into the process, and his involvement evolved from "first recording some extra parts to some tracks" and eventually into "a collaboration on [the] tracks noted in the booklet".[10] Adrian Belew was also brought on for select instrumental contributions, but as the project evolved Reznor expanded Belew's involvement and shared writing credit with him on two tracks.[11]

Ghosts I–IV is an almost entirely instrumental album, with only a few tracks containing sampled vocals. Reznor described the album's sound as "the result of working from a very visual perspective—dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture; a soundtrack for daydreams."[12] PopMatters' review of the album compared its musical style to that of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, ultimately categorizing it as "dark ambient".[1] The review went on to describe the music as "a tonal painting, a collection of moods and not all of these moods are good ones."[1] NPR compared the album to the music of Erik Satie and Brian Eno. Rolling Stone also compared the album to the work of Brian Eno, specifically the album's sound to the instrumentals of Another Green World (1975) and the rhythm collages of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981).[13][14] Robert Christgau also compared the album to the work of Brian Eno, summarizing Ghosts' sound as "mental wallpaper".[15]

Ghosts I–IV features a wide assortment of musical instruments, including piano, guitar, bass, synthesizer, marimba, tambourine, banjo, dulcimer, and xylophone, many of which were sampled and distorted electronically.[16] Percussion instruments, contributed primarily by Brian Viglione, were constructed largely out of found objects and household items.[9]

Artwork

Rob Sheridan acted as the album's art director, in collaboration with Artist in Residence. Sheridan was also art director for the previous two Nine Inch Nails studio albums, With Teeth (2005) and Year Zero.[5] Since Ghosts was released in a variety of versions, some of the versions feature somewhat differing (or additional) album art and related artwork. A 40-page PDF comes with each version of the album and contains a photograph for each of the 36 tracks. These photographs are also embedded into the ID3 tags of every downloadable track.[17]

Release

 
Promotional photo of Reznor for Ghosts I–IV

Ghosts I–IV was released online on March 2, 2008, on the official Nine Inch Nails website in a number of different formats at various price points.[8] The only prior advertisement or notice of the release was a post by Reznor two weeks prior on the site saying "2 weeks!"[18] Ghosts was the first album released by Reznor's independent label The Null Corporation. Retail copies of the album were distributed by RED Distribution on April 8 on CD and vinyl formats, and May 1 for the "Deluxe" and "Ultra-Deluxe" editions.[6][19][20] The smallest Ghosts package contains the first nine tracks, available for free online from either the official Nine Inch Nails website or officially from various BitTorrent trackers, including The Pirate Bay.[21] The entire album was also made available for download directly from the band for US$5. Physical copies of the album were available for pre-sale online, with immediate access to the digital version. A two-disc version includes two audio CDs and a 16-page booklet for $10. A "Deluxe Edition" is available for $75 and includes two audio CDs, a data-DVD containing multitrack files of the album, a Blu-ray Disc with the album in high-definition stereo and accompanying slide show, and a 48-page hardcover book with photographs. A $300 "Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition" included everything in the "Deluxe" edition, as well as a 4-LP 180 gram vinyl set in a fabric slipcase, and two exclusive limited edition Giclée prints, unique to each copy. These were limited to 2,500 pieces, each copy numbered and signed by Trent Reznor.[6][19] Reznor described the limited edition release as "the most luxurious physical package we've ever created."[5] Finally, the album was also released on 4-LP 130 gram vinyl, set in a double gate fold package, for $39.[22]

The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license, in effect allowing anyone to use or rework the material for any non-profit purpose, as long as credit is provided and the resulting work is released under a similar license.[23][24] Reznor explained this move by saying "It's a stance we're taking that we feel is appropriate [...] with digital technology, and outdated copyright laws, and all the nonsense that's going on these days".[25] Jim Guerinot, then manager of Nine Inch Nails, explained the unconventional release of the album as "[not] a reaction to what doesn’t exist today. [...] it’s more just like, 'Hey, in a vacuum I can do whatever I want to do.'"[26] The digital-release of the album reportedly required an extensive overhaul of the Nine Inch Nails website in order for the site to cope with the influx of traffic, online-payments, and customer service needs of releasing the album. These upgrades cost Reznor approximately $20,000 to implement.[27] Despite these measures, upon the release of Ghosts the site crashed, and additional servers were necessary to handle the traffic.[28]

Film festival

Nearly two weeks after the release of the album, Reznor organized and announced a user-created "film festival" as an accompaniment to the album, hosted at the official Nine Inch Nails YouTube channel.[29] It was revealed that the album was stripped of much artwork and song titles to provide a blank canvas for the project.[29][30] Reznor explained that the endeavor was not meant as a contest, but as "an experiment in collaboration and a chance for us to interact beyond the typical one-way artist-to-fan relationship."[31] Over 2,000 video submissions were posted and over 13,000 members joined the festival group, which started in March 2008.[32]

Live performances

Ghosts I–IV material was implemented into Nine Inch Nails live performances typically as a distinct section of instrumental songs midway through the show.[33] Ghosts material was performed in this manner primarily as part of the Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, immediately after the album's release.[34][35] During these segments the music was largely acoustic, as opposed to the electric instrumentation of other Nine Inch Nails live sets. The Ghosts segment included instrumentation from a marimba, harmonium, glockenspiel, double bass, banjo and various homemade percussion instruments.[35] The Ghosts section was later scrapped for the "NINJA" and "Wave Goodbye" tours, as Reznor felt the instrumental songs did not fit with the set lists.[33]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic69/100[36]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [37]
Blender     [38]
IGN8.7/10[39]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)A−[15]
Now3/5[40]
Pitchfork5.0/10[41]
PopMatters8/10[1]
Rolling Stone     [13]
Spin     [42]
Uncut     [43]

Critical response to Ghosts I–IV was generally favorable, with an average rating of 69/100 based on 12 reviews on Metacritic.[36] Seth Colter Walls of Newsweek described the album as "the kind of absorbing musical experience that the surviving ranks of know-it-all record-store clerks would be pushing on customers, if only they could offer it for sale."[44] IGN gave the album a rating of 8.7 out of 10 and wrote, "The music is so engrossing and encompassing that time ceases to be a factor—at least until the music finally stops."[39] PopMatters gave the album an 8 out of 10, and described the album as "36 tracks, but no songs", and went on to call it "dark, brooding [...] haunting."[1] Pitchfork criticized the album by saying "nearly every one of the untitled instrumental sketches here feels emaciated and half-finished", and gave the work a 5.0 out of 10.0.[41] Blender also criticized the album, summarizing the review by saying "Nine Inch Nails return with no label oversight, no boundaries and no tunes."[38] The Washington Post stated, "There's too much here. Yet it's the most interesting NIN in years." The review went on to describe each track as "the sonic equivalent of a silver orb hovering in your living room [which then] explodes into a million shiny balls of mercury that splash to the floor before trickling, magnetically, back into a large round mass."[45]

The album's unorthodox distribution methods also garnered the attention of various news agencies, such as Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk, who labeled Ghosts as "a remarkably extensive release."[46] Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal hypothesized that "most business execs [...] could learn a lot from [Reznor's] experiments with online business models."[47] Many news agencies compared the release to Radiohead's 2007 "pay what you want" digital release of In Rainbows, as well as the similar release of Saul Williams' album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! the same year, which Reznor produced. Rolling Stone's review called the album a "a new-media showpiece",[13] while Tiny Mix Tapes said "the circumstances surrounding the release are so forward-thinking that they could be considered just as key to appreciating the album as the music itself."[48] Financial website The Motley Fool wrote an article on the album's release titled "Music Industry Gets Nailed Again," forecasting that "Innovators like Nine Inch Nails are paving the way for new media business models that may bypass the middleman while making sure artists and fans are happy."[49] In its review of The Slip, however, PopMatters described Ghosts I–IV in retrospect as an "aimless batch of... instrumentals packaged in a brilliant marketing scheme" and said that it was "basically a CD release with a couple of mail-order special editions available for the 'true fans'."[50]

Accolades

Ghosts was nominated for two Grammy Awards, under the categories Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the track "34 Ghosts IV", and Best Boxed Set or Limited Edition Package for the "Ultra-Deluxe" edition of the album.[51] These nominations represented the first time music licensed under Creative Commons had been nominated for a Grammy Award.[52] Following the release of Ghosts and the similar online release method of the band's follow-up, The Slip, Reznor was awarded the Webby Artist of the Year Award at the annual Webby Awards in 2009.[53] Rolling Stone magazine named Reznor number 46 in its "100 People Who Are Changing America" list, concluding that he has "been more creative than anyone in embracing the post-CD era".[54]

Commercial performance

The album's initial release on the official Nine Inch Nails website suffered problems as the website was inundated with traffic, and was not fully operational until extra servers were added to handle the influx of downloads.[28] A week after the album's release, the official Nine Inch Nails site reported over 780,000 purchase and download transactions, amassing over $1.6 million in sales.[55] Pre-orders of the $300 "Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition" sold out in less than 30 hours of its release.[56]

The physical release of the album debuted at number 14 on the US Billboard 200 with 26,000 copies sold in its first week.[57] The album also topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart.[58] It had sold 149,000 copies in the United States by May 2013.[59] Internationally, Ghosts peaked at number three in Canada, number 15 in Australia, number 26 in New Zealand, number 58 in Austria, and number 60 in the United Kingdom.[60][61][62]

Influence

"02 Ghosts I" has been featured in the 2012 documentary film Kony 2012.[63] Portions of the album were used as the soundtrack to the 2014 documentary film Citizenfour.[64][65] The 2018 documentary series The Fourth Estate features variations of songs from Ghosts I-IV, in addition to the series' opening sequence being scored by Reznor and Ross.[66]

"34 Ghosts IV" was sampled by music producer YoungKio for a beat subsequently used on the 2018 Lil Nas X song "Old Town Road," with Reznor's and Ross' writing credits. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2019, and stayed there for a record-breaking nineteen consecutive weeks.[67][68] The song also earned both Reznor and Ross a Country Music Association Awards nomination for Musical Event of the Year.[69]

Follow-up albums

Reznor wrote in 2008 that "more volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future."[5] In a 2009 interview with Trent Vanegas, he repeated his intention to make another Ghosts album in the near future.[70]

The release of Ghosts I–IV foreshadowed a stream of soundtrack albums, recorded and labeled by Reznor and Ross, apart from Nine Inch Nails catalogue. The duo's three consecutive collaborations with director David Fincher: The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Gone Girl (2014), were followed by a collaboration Before the Flood (2016), and subsequent scores for Patriots Day (2017), The Vietnam War (2017), Mid90s (2018), Bird Box (2018), Watchmen (2019), Waves (2019), Mank (fourth collaboration with Fincher, 2020), Soul (2020), Bones and All (2022), and Empire of Light (2022).

On March 26, 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the band released the previously unannounced Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts, for free download on the band's website, YouTube channel, and streaming platforms.[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, except where noted.

Ghosts I (disc one)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."1 Ghosts I" 2:48
2."2 Ghosts I" 3:16
3."3 Ghosts I" 3:51
4."4 Ghosts I"
2:13
5."5 Ghosts I" 2:51
6."6 Ghosts I" 4:18
7."7 Ghosts I" 2:00
8."8 Ghosts I" 2:56
9."9 Ghosts I" 2:47
Ghosts II
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."10 Ghosts II" 2:42
11."11 Ghosts II"
  • Reznor
  • Ross
  • Cortini
2:17
12."12 Ghosts II" 2:17
13."13 Ghosts II" 3:13
14."14 Ghosts II" 3:05
15."15 Ghosts II" 1:53
16."16 Ghosts II" 2:30
17."17 Ghosts II"
  • Reznor
  • Ross
  • Cortini
2:13
18."18 Ghosts II" 5:22
Ghosts III (disc two)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
19."19 Ghosts III"
2:11
20."20 Ghosts III" 3:39
21."21 Ghosts III" 2:54
22."22 Ghosts III"
  • Reznor
  • Ross
  • Cortini
  • Viglione
2:31
23."23 Ghosts III" 2:43
24."24 Ghosts III" 2:39
25."25 Ghosts III"
1:58
26."26 Ghosts III" 2:25
27."27 Ghosts III"
  • Reznor
  • Ross
  • Belew
2:51
Ghosts IV
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
28."28 Ghosts IV" 5:22
29."29 Ghosts IV"
  • Reznor
  • Ross
  • Cortini
2:54
30."30 Ghosts IV" 2:58
31."31 Ghosts IV" 2:25
32."32 Ghosts IV" 4:25
33."33 Ghosts IV"
  • Reznor
  • Ross
  • Cortini
4:01
34."34 Ghosts IV" 5:52
35."35 Ghosts IV" 3:29
36."36 Ghosts IV" 2:19
Total length:109:56
Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
37."37 Ghosts"2:20
38."38 Ghosts"4:51
Total length:117:07

Notes

  • Tracks 37 and 38 are accessible only by reconstructing them from multi-track files provided on the DVD. The second bonus track features musical elements and a similar song structure to "Demon Seed," track 10 from what would be the next Nine Inch Nails release The Slip.[50]

Personnel

Album credits adapted from the liner notes of Ghosts I–IV:[71]

  • Trent Reznor – performance, production, art direction
  • Atticus Ross – programming, arranging, production
  • Adrian Belew – guitars (3, 4, 7, 10–11, 14, 16, 21, 25, 27, 31, 32, 35), electronics (25), marimba (30)
  • Alessandro Cortini – bass (4), guitars (4, 11, 17, 20, 24, 28), dulcimer (22), additional electronics (19, 22, 29, 33)
  • Josh Freese – drums (38)
  • Brian Viglione – drums (19, 22)
  • Alan Moulder – engineering, mix engineering, production
  • Tom Baker – mastering
  • Rob Sheridan – art direction, photography, visual and physical elements[5]
  • Artist in Residence – art direction, photography, visual and physical elements[5]
  • Phillip Graybill – photography
  • Tamar Levine – additional photography

Charts

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Ghosts I IV is the sixth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails released by The Null Corporation on March 2 2008 It was the band s first independent release following their split from longtime label Interscope Records in 2007 The production team included Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor studio collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder and contributions from Alessandro Cortini Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione Ghosts I IVStudio album by Nine Inch NailsReleasedMarch 2 2008 2008 03 02 RecordedOctober December 2007GenreDark ambient 1 Length109 56LabelThe Null CorporationProducerAlan MoulderTrent ReznorAtticus RossNine Inch Nails chronologyYear Zero Remixed 2007 Ghosts I IV 2008 The Slip 2008 Halo numbers chronologyHalo 25 2007 Halo 26 2008 Halo 27 2008 Reznor described Ghosts as a soundtrack for daydreams a sentiment echoed by critics who compared it to the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp The tracks are unnamed identified only by their track listing and group number and are almost entirely instrumental Although conceived as a five track EP the final release consisted of four nine track EPs totaling 36 tracks The album was released under a Creative Commons license BY NC SA and in a variety of differing packages and prices including a 300 deluxe edition without prior announcement A YouTube based film festival was also announced inviting fans to visually interpret the music and post their submissions but no mention has been made of the festival since its announcement Ghosts I IV received positive reviews critics praised its experimentalism and unorthodox release It reached number 14 in the US and was nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package the first time music released under a Creative Commons license had been nominated for a Grammy Award Ghosts preceded a series of soundtrack albums recorded by Reznor and Ross including four collaborations with director David Fincher In March 2020 Nine Inch Nails released two follow up albums to Ghosts I IV Ghosts V Together and Ghosts VI Locusts 2 Contents 1 Production 1 1 Recording and music 1 2 Artwork 2 Release 2 1 Film festival 2 2 Live performances 3 Critical reception 3 1 Accolades 4 Commercial performance 5 Influence 6 Follow up albums 7 Track listing 7 1 Notes 8 Personnel 9 Charts 9 1 Weekly charts 9 2 Year end charts 10 References 11 External linksProduction EditRecording and music Edit Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor announced in 2007 that the band had completed its contractual obligations to its record label Interscope Records and would no longer be working with the company He also revealed that the band would likely distribute its next album independently possibly in a fashion similar to Saul Williams 2007 album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust which Reznor produced 3 Following the Performance 2007 Tour in support of the band s previous album Year Zero 2007 Reznor set out to make a record with very little forethought 4 Ghosts I IV originated from an experiment The rules were as follows 10 weeks no clear agenda no overthinking everything driven by impulse Whatever happens during that time gets released as something 5 Reznor explained I ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years but by its very nature it wouldn t have made sense until this point 6 The core creative team behind the project was Reznor Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder Live band member Alessandro Cortini and studio musicians Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione also contributed instrumental performances on select tracks 5 Reznor described the band s early intentions for the project as an experiment and explained the group s process When we started working with the music we would generally start with a sort of visual reference that we had imagined a place or a setting or a situation And then attempt to describe that with sound and texture and melody And treat it in a sense as if it were a soundtrack 7 The musicians created the album tracks through improvisation and experimentation As a result the initial plan to release a single EP of the material expanded to include the increasing amount of material 8 Viglione contributed percussion to tracks 19 and 22 He stated that Reznor s instructions to him were to build a drumkit Piece together any stuff that you want to bang on rent what you want to rent Have fun and be creative See where your mind and your ideas take you 9 Viglione s makeshift drum kit included a 50 gallon trash can a pair of water cooler jugs and a cookie tray with a chain across it 9 Alessandro Cortini is credited on a total of ten tracks from Ghosts for his contributions on guitar bass guitar dulcimer and electronics Cortini was brought onto the project two weeks into the process and his involvement evolved from first recording some extra parts to some tracks and eventually into a collaboration on the tracks noted in the booklet 10 Adrian Belew was also brought on for select instrumental contributions but as the project evolved Reznor expanded Belew s involvement and shared writing credit with him on two tracks 11 Ghosts I IV is an almost entirely instrumental album with only a few tracks containing sampled vocals Reznor described the album s sound as the result of working from a very visual perspective dressing imagined locations and scenarios with sound and texture a soundtrack for daydreams 12 PopMatters review of the album compared its musical style to that of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp ultimately categorizing it as dark ambient 1 The review went on to describe the music as a tonal painting a collection of moods and not all of these moods are good ones 1 NPR compared the album to the music of Erik Satie and Brian Eno Rolling Stone also compared the album to the work of Brian Eno specifically the album s sound to the instrumentals of Another Green World 1975 and the rhythm collages of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts 1981 13 14 Robert Christgau also compared the album to the work of Brian Eno summarizing Ghosts sound as mental wallpaper 15 Ghosts I IV features a wide assortment of musical instruments including piano guitar bass synthesizer marimba tambourine banjo dulcimer and xylophone many of which were sampled and distorted electronically 16 Percussion instruments contributed primarily by Brian Viglione were constructed largely out of found objects and household items 9 Artwork Edit Rob Sheridan acted as the album s art director in collaboration with Artist in Residence Sheridan was also art director for the previous two Nine Inch Nails studio albums With Teeth 2005 and Year Zero 5 Since Ghosts was released in a variety of versions some of the versions feature somewhat differing or additional album art and related artwork A 40 page PDF comes with each version of the album and contains a photograph for each of the 36 tracks These photographs are also embedded into the ID3 tags of every downloadable track 17 Release Edit Promotional photo of Reznor for Ghosts I IV Ghosts I IV was released online on March 2 2008 on the official Nine Inch Nails website in a number of different formats at various price points 8 The only prior advertisement or notice of the release was a post by Reznor two weeks prior on the site saying 2 weeks 18 Ghosts was the first album released by Reznor s independent label The Null Corporation Retail copies of the album were distributed by RED Distribution on April 8 on CD and vinyl formats and May 1 for the Deluxe and Ultra Deluxe editions 6 19 20 The smallest Ghosts package contains the first nine tracks available for free online from either the official Nine Inch Nails website or officially from various BitTorrent trackers including The Pirate Bay 21 The entire album was also made available for download directly from the band for US 5 Physical copies of the album were available for pre sale online with immediate access to the digital version A two disc version includes two audio CDs and a 16 page booklet for 10 A Deluxe Edition is available for 75 and includes two audio CDs a data DVD containing multitrack files of the album a Blu ray Disc with the album in high definition stereo and accompanying slide show and a 48 page hardcover book with photographs A 300 Ultra Deluxe Limited Edition included everything in the Deluxe edition as well as a 4 LP 180 gram vinyl set in a fabric slipcase and two exclusive limited edition Giclee prints unique to each copy These were limited to 2 500 pieces each copy numbered and signed by Trent Reznor 6 19 Reznor described the limited edition release as the most luxurious physical package we ve ever created 5 Finally the album was also released on 4 LP 130 gram vinyl set in a double gate fold package for 39 22 The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike license in effect allowing anyone to use or rework the material for any non profit purpose as long as credit is provided and the resulting work is released under a similar license 23 24 Reznor explained this move by saying It s a stance we re taking that we feel is appropriate with digital technology and outdated copyright laws and all the nonsense that s going on these days 25 Jim Guerinot then manager of Nine Inch Nails explained the unconventional release of the album as not a reaction to what doesn t exist today it s more just like Hey in a vacuum I can do whatever I want to do 26 The digital release of the album reportedly required an extensive overhaul of the Nine Inch Nails website in order for the site to cope with the influx of traffic online payments and customer service needs of releasing the album These upgrades cost Reznor approximately 20 000 to implement 27 Despite these measures upon the release of Ghosts the site crashed and additional servers were necessary to handle the traffic 28 Film festival Edit Nearly two weeks after the release of the album Reznor organized and announced a user created film festival as an accompaniment to the album hosted at the official Nine Inch Nails YouTube channel 29 It was revealed that the album was stripped of much artwork and song titles to provide a blank canvas for the project 29 30 Reznor explained that the endeavor was not meant as a contest but as an experiment in collaboration and a chance for us to interact beyond the typical one way artist to fan relationship 31 Over 2 000 video submissions were posted and over 13 000 members joined the festival group which started in March 2008 32 Live performances Edit Ghosts I IV material was implemented into Nine Inch Nails live performances typically as a distinct section of instrumental songs midway through the show 33 Ghosts material was performed in this manner primarily as part of the Lights in the Sky tour in 2008 immediately after the album s release 34 35 During these segments the music was largely acoustic as opposed to the electric instrumentation of other Nine Inch Nails live sets The Ghosts segment included instrumentation from a marimba harmonium glockenspiel double bass banjo and various homemade percussion instruments 35 The Ghosts section was later scrapped for the NINJA and Wave Goodbye tours as Reznor felt the instrumental songs did not fit with the set lists 33 Critical reception EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic69 100 36 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 37 Blender 38 IGN8 7 10 39 MSN Music Consumer Guide A 15 Now3 5 40 Pitchfork5 0 10 41 PopMatters8 10 1 Rolling Stone 13 Spin 42 Uncut 43 Critical response to Ghosts I IV was generally favorable with an average rating of 69 100 based on 12 reviews on Metacritic 36 Seth Colter Walls of Newsweek described the album as the kind of absorbing musical experience that the surviving ranks of know it all record store clerks would be pushing on customers if only they could offer it for sale 44 IGN gave the album a rating of 8 7 out of 10 and wrote The music is so engrossing and encompassing that time ceases to be a factor at least until the music finally stops 39 PopMatters gave the album an 8 out of 10 and described the album as 36 tracks but no songs and went on to call it dark brooding haunting 1 Pitchfork criticized the album by saying nearly every one of the untitled instrumental sketches here feels emaciated and half finished and gave the work a 5 0 out of 10 0 41 Blender also criticized the album summarizing the review by saying Nine Inch Nails return with no label oversight no boundaries and no tunes 38 The Washington Post stated There s too much here Yet it s the most interesting NIN in years The review went on to describe each track as the sonic equivalent of a silver orb hovering in your living room which then explodes into a million shiny balls of mercury that splash to the floor before trickling magnetically back into a large round mass 45 The album s unorthodox distribution methods also garnered the attention of various news agencies such as Wired s Eliot Van Buskirk who labeled Ghosts as a remarkably extensive release 46 Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal hypothesized that most business execs could learn a lot from Reznor s experiments with online business models 47 Many news agencies compared the release to Radiohead s 2007 pay what you want digital release of In Rainbows as well as the similar release of Saul Williams album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust the same year which Reznor produced Rolling Stone s review called the album a a new media showpiece 13 while Tiny Mix Tapes said the circumstances surrounding the release are so forward thinking that they could be considered just as key to appreciating the album as the music itself 48 Financial website The Motley Fool wrote an article on the album s release titled Music Industry Gets Nailed Again forecasting that Innovators like Nine Inch Nails are paving the way for new media business models that may bypass the middleman while making sure artists and fans are happy 49 In its review of The Slip however PopMatters described Ghosts I IV in retrospect as an aimless batch of instrumentals packaged in a brilliant marketing scheme and said that it was basically a CD release with a couple of mail order special editions available for the true fans 50 Accolades Edit Ghosts was nominated for two Grammy Awards under the categories Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the track 34 Ghosts IV and Best Boxed Set or Limited Edition Package for the Ultra Deluxe edition of the album 51 These nominations represented the first time music licensed under Creative Commons had been nominated for a Grammy Award 52 Following the release of Ghosts and the similar online release method of the band s follow up The Slip Reznor was awarded the Webby Artist of the Year Award at the annual Webby Awards in 2009 53 Rolling Stone magazine named Reznor number 46 in its 100 People Who Are Changing America list concluding that he has been more creative than anyone in embracing the post CD era 54 Commercial performance EditThe album s initial release on the official Nine Inch Nails website suffered problems as the website was inundated with traffic and was not fully operational until extra servers were added to handle the influx of downloads 28 A week after the album s release the official Nine Inch Nails site reported over 780 000 purchase and download transactions amassing over 1 6 million in sales 55 Pre orders of the 300 Ultra Deluxe Limited Edition sold out in less than 30 hours of its release 56 The physical release of the album debuted at number 14 on the US Billboard 200 with 26 000 copies sold in its first week 57 The album also topped Billboard s Dance Electronic Albums chart 58 It had sold 149 000 copies in the United States by May 2013 59 Internationally Ghosts peaked at number three in Canada number 15 in Australia number 26 in New Zealand number 58 in Austria and number 60 in the United Kingdom 60 61 62 Influence Edit 02 Ghosts I has been featured in the 2012 documentary film Kony 2012 63 Portions of the album were used as the soundtrack to the 2014 documentary film Citizenfour 64 65 The 2018 documentary series The Fourth Estate features variations of songs from Ghosts I IV in addition to the series opening sequence being scored by Reznor and Ross 66 34 Ghosts IV was sampled by music producer YoungKio for a beat subsequently used on the 2018 Lil Nas X song Old Town Road with Reznor s and Ross writing credits It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2019 and stayed there for a record breaking nineteen consecutive weeks 67 68 The song also earned both Reznor and Ross a Country Music Association Awards nomination for Musical Event of the Year 69 Follow up albums EditReznor wrote in 2008 that more volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future 5 In a 2009 interview with Trent Vanegas he repeated his intention to make another Ghosts album in the near future 70 The release of Ghosts I IV foreshadowed a stream of soundtrack albums recorded and labeled by Reznor and Ross apart from Nine Inch Nails catalogue The duo s three consecutive collaborations with director David Fincher The Social Network 2010 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 and Gone Girl 2014 were followed by a collaboration Before the Flood 2016 and subsequent scores for Patriots Day 2017 The Vietnam War 2017 Mid90s 2018 Bird Box 2018 Watchmen 2019 Waves 2019 Mank fourth collaboration with Fincher 2020 Soul 2020 Bones and All 2022 and Empire of Light 2022 On March 26 2020 as a response to the COVID 19 pandemic the band released the previously unannounced Ghosts V Together and Ghosts VI Locusts for free download on the band s website YouTube channel and streaming platforms 2 Track listing EditAll tracks are written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross except where noted Ghosts I disc one No TitleWriter s Length1 1 Ghosts I 2 482 2 Ghosts I 3 163 3 Ghosts I 3 514 4 Ghosts I ReznorRossAlessandro Cortini2 135 5 Ghosts I 2 516 6 Ghosts I 4 187 7 Ghosts I 2 008 8 Ghosts I 2 569 9 Ghosts I 2 47 Ghosts IINo TitleWriter s Length10 10 Ghosts II 2 4211 11 Ghosts II ReznorRossCortini2 1712 12 Ghosts II 2 1713 13 Ghosts II 3 1314 14 Ghosts II 3 0515 15 Ghosts II 1 5316 16 Ghosts II 2 3017 17 Ghosts II ReznorRossCortini2 1318 18 Ghosts II 5 22 Ghosts III disc two No TitleWriter s Length19 19 Ghosts III ReznorRossCortiniBrian Viglione2 1120 20 Ghosts III 3 3921 21 Ghosts III 2 5422 22 Ghosts III ReznorRossCortiniViglione2 3123 23 Ghosts III 2 4324 24 Ghosts III 2 3925 25 Ghosts III ReznorRossAdrian Belew1 5826 26 Ghosts III 2 2527 27 Ghosts III ReznorRossBelew2 51 Ghosts IVNo TitleWriter s Length28 28 Ghosts IV 5 2229 29 Ghosts IV ReznorRossCortini2 5430 30 Ghosts IV 2 5831 31 Ghosts IV 2 2532 32 Ghosts IV 4 2533 33 Ghosts IV ReznorRossCortini4 0134 34 Ghosts IV 5 5235 35 Ghosts IV 3 2936 36 Ghosts IV 2 19Total length 109 56 Bonus tracksNo TitleLength37 37 Ghosts 2 2038 38 Ghosts 4 51Total length 117 07 Notes Edit Tracks 37 and 38 are accessible only by reconstructing them from multi track files provided on the DVD The second bonus track features musical elements and a similar song structure to Demon Seed track 10 from what would be the next Nine Inch Nails release The Slip 50 Personnel EditAlbum credits adapted from the liner notes of Ghosts I IV 71 Trent Reznor performance production art direction Atticus Ross programming arranging production Adrian Belew guitars 3 4 7 10 11 14 16 21 25 27 31 32 35 electronics 25 marimba 30 Alessandro Cortini bass 4 guitars 4 11 17 20 24 28 dulcimer 22 additional electronics 19 22 29 33 Josh Freese drums 38 Brian Viglione drums 19 22 Alan Moulder engineering mix engineering production Tom Baker mastering Rob Sheridan art direction photography visual and physical elements 5 Artist in Residence art direction photography visual and physical elements 5 Phillip Graybill photography Tamar Levine additional photographyCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2008 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 72 15Austrian Albums O3 Austria 73 58Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 61 54Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 74 90Canadian Albums Billboard 60 3German Albums Offizielle Top 100 75 60Irish Albums IRMA 76 83Italian Albums FIMI 77 80Japanese Albums Oricon 78 89New Zealand Albums RMNZ 79 26Scottish Albums OCC 80 50UK Albums OCC 62 60UK Independent Albums OCC 81 6UK Rock amp Metal Albums OCC 82 4US Billboard 200 83 14US Independent Albums Billboard 84 2US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 85 3US Top Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 58 1US Top Rock Albums Billboard 86 3 Year end charts Edit Chart 2008 PositionUS Top Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 87 9References Edit a b c d e Price Mark A March 11 2008 Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I IV PopMatters Retrieved January 4 2017 a b Chan Anna March 26 2020 Nine Inch Nails New Albums Ghosts V VI Listen Billboard Retrieved March 27 2020 Cohen Jonathan October 8 2007 Nine Inch Nails Celebrates Free Agent Status 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