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Ghosts VI: Locusts (2020)

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Released for free on March 26, 2020, this record came out the same day as its companion album Ghosts V: Together, as a gift to fans during the pandemic.

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Album story

Overview

• Ghosts VI: Locusts is the eleventh studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails
• Released as a free download on March 26, 2020
• Released as a show of solidarity with the band's fans during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Released simultaneously with Ghosts V: Together, the tenth Nine Inch Nails album
• Third release of the Ghosts series
• The track listing includes fifteen named tracks, such as The Cursed Clock, About Every Corner, and Turn This Off Please

Background

• In 2019, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross completed a score for The Woman in the Window after releasing their eighth soundtrack, for Bird Box
• The production studio decided to re-edit the film after test screenings, and the Reznor and Ross score was withdrawn
• The 2019 soundtracks Watchmen and Waves came before this release
• In March 2020, Reznor announced two unexpected releases, Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts
• Both were offered for free download through the official Nine Inch Nails website, the YouTube channel, and streaming platforms
• The band's website said the news kept shifting between hope and despair, and that the situation made them appreciate the need for connection

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer-songwriter Trent Reznor.
• Reznor was the sole permanent member until Atticus Ross officially joined in 2016.
• The first live performance took place at Graffiti in Pittsburgh on October 27, 1988.
• Signed with TVT Records and later moved to Interscope Records.

Members

• Core members are Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
• Robin Finck, Josh Freese, and Stu Brooks form the current live lineup.
• Many former live members have been named, including Chris Vrenna, Danny Lohner, and Charlie Clouser.

Career

• Released Pretty Hate Machine (1989), Broken (1992), The Downward Spiral (1994), The Fragile (1999), and With Teeth (2005).
• Released Year Zero (2007), Hesitation Marks (2013), Bad Witch (2018), and Ghosts V and VI (2020).
• Won Grammy Awards for "Wish", "Happiness in Slavery", and "As Alive as You Need Me to Be".
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: generally favorable reviews, based on a weighted average score of 80 out of 100 from 10 critic scores
• NME critic James McMahon wrote that the record is as unsettling as a record entitled Locusts should be
• NME's McMahon also referred to the whole project as music for daydreams
• Rolling Stone's Kory Grow noted that the music turns much darker in Ghosts VI, which makes it the more interesting of the two
• Grow also stated that Ghosts V and VI sound more considered and complete than the initial Ghosts volumes
• Pitchfork critic Sean T. Collins described the record as anxious and anxiety-inducing
• Collins wrote that without the melodic template and pacing of Together, Locusts often feels like its titular swarm, devouring itself
• Jon Pareles of The New York Times said Ghosts VI offers none of the meditative or melodic sanctuary of Ghosts V
• Pareles called the album harrowing from end to end, with a soundscape of impending collapse
• Spin's John Paul Bullock thought the record was much more menacing than Ghosts V
• Sputnikmusic's staff critic Simon called the album an all-out Lynchian nightmare
• AllMusic's Neil Z. Yeung wrote that Locusts may not offer hope or solace but is objectively the more interesting experience

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• In March 2020, Reznor said of the two releases: Hours and hours of music. Free. Some of it kind of happy, some not so much.
• Ghosts VI: Locusts is described as a continuation of the instrumental album Ghosts I–IV (2008)
• Unlike the tracks on Ghosts I–IV, the tracks on Ghosts V and Ghosts VI are named
• The Italian listing credits the music to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• The album was distributed for free on March 26, 2020, without any prior announcement

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