Nine Inch Nails have surprise-released a new album. Ghosts V-VI arrived suddenly this morning, available as a free download from their website.
It comprises Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts. “Hours and hours of music,” Trent Reznor tweeted. “Free. Some of it kind of happy, some not so much.” Listen below.
Parts I-IV in the Ghosts series were released as an album in 2008. It included “34 Ghosts IV,” which was later sampled by producer YoungKio for the track that Lil Nas X eventually made into “Old Town Road.” Nine Inch Nails’ last album was 2013’s Hesitation Marks, though they’ve since released a suite of EPs: 2016’s Not the Actual Events, 2017’s Add Violence, and 2018’s Bad Witch.
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