Ghosts I-IV

Biography

Ghosts I–IV (also known as Halo 26) is the seventh major studio release by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails and was released on March 2, 2008. The album contains 36 instrumental tracks and is the first album from Nine Inch Nails following its announcement that the band had severed its ties with Interscope Records and intended to release future material independently. The final release is presented as four nine-track instrumental EPs. The tracks do not have names, and are identified o...

Ghosts I–IV (also known as Halo 26) is the seventh major studio release by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails and was released on March 2, 2008. The album contains 36 instrumental tracks and is the first album from Nine Inch Nails following its announcement that the band had severed its ties with Interscope Records and intended to release future material independently. The final release is presented as four nine-track instrumental EPs. The tracks do not have names, and are identified only by their track listing, position, and album art. The team behind the project featured Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder, with instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione. The album was released under a Creative Commons license, and in a variety of different packages at different price points, including a US$300 "Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition".The album was initially released digitally on the Nine Inch Nails official website without any prior advertisement or promotion. Via the official Nine Inch Nails YouTube profile, a user-generated "film festival" was announced, where fans were invited to visually interpret the album's music and post their results.The retail version of the album was the first album to be released by Reznor's completely independent label The Null Corporation. Critical reception of the album has generally been favorable, its unorthodox release attracting positive comments from many news agencies. Much coverage of Ghosts I–IV has compared it to the digital-download releases of Radiohead's In Rainbows as well as Saul Williams' The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. Last.fm's current track listing is incorrect; the correct one is as follows: 1. 1 Ghosts I - 2:49 2. 2 Ghosts I - 3:16 3. 3 Ghosts I - 3:51 4. 4 Ghosts I - 2:13 5. 5 Ghosts I - 2:52 6. 6 Ghosts I - 4:19 7. 7 Ghosts I - 2:01 8. 8 Ghosts I - 2:56 9. 9 Ghosts I - 2:47 10. 10 Ghosts II - 2:42 11. 11 Ghosts II - 2:17 12. 12 Ghosts II - 2:17 13. 13 Ghosts II - 3:14 14. 14 Ghosts II - 3:06 15. 15 Ghosts II - 1:53 16. 16 Ghosts II - 2:30 17. 17 Ghosts II - 2:13 18. 18 Ghosts II - 5:23 19. 19 Ghosts III - 2:12 20. 20 Ghosts III - 3:39 21. 21 Ghosts III - 2:54 22. 22 Ghosts III - 2:31 23. 23 Ghosts III - 2:44 24. 24 Ghosts III - 2:39 25. 25 Ghosts III - 1:59 26. 26 Ghosts III - 2:26 27. 27 Ghosts III - 2:52 28. 28 Ghosts IV - 5:22 29. 29 Ghosts IV - 2:55 30. 30 Ghosts IV - 2:59 31. 31 Ghosts IV - 2:26 32. 32 Ghosts IV - 4:26 33. 33 Ghosts IV - 4:02 34. 34 Ghosts IV - 5:52 35. 35 Ghosts IV - 3:30 36. 36 Ghosts IV - 2:19 The "Deluxe" and "Ultra-Deluxe" editions also feature the following two bonus tracks, only accessible by reconstructing them from multitrack files included on the DVD: 37. 37 Ghosts - 2:20 38. 38 Ghosts - 4:51 "38 Ghosts" contains musical elements that would later be reused in "Demon Seed", the closing song on Nine Inch Nails' following album, The Slip. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.