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   Tinymixtapes
Ghosts I-IV operates on so many different levels beyond those of the traditional record that critically evaluating the record can be troubling. This has perhaps lead to a stunning lack of actual criticism in the music press regarding the album, even though 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. To begin with, in Trent Reznor’s new vision for the industry (or at least for his own work), the listener is no longer required to make a blind purchase based on a promising radio single or a glowing review, a strategy labels large and small have exploited since the beginning of the music industry to hawk sub par product to the otherwise uninformed....full text

   Popmatters
Recorded over ten weeks in the autumn of 2007, Ghosts I-IV is a departure in many ways for Nine Inch Nails mainstay Trent Reznor. No song titles, no record label, no lyrics. Until April 8th 2008 there is not even a physical album. The concept of this release, if not the content, is an exhibition in minimalism. If it had been released under any moniker other than Nine Inch Nails, it might not have achieved the same amount of attention (the volume of downloads on the first weekend of release broke the band’s website). In many ways it challenges what we know about the band, as it liberates Reznor’s skill at musical composition from his often trite lyrics....full text

   Rollingstone
Instrumental sets by bands are usually just footnotes (see also the Beastie Boys' The Mix-Up). But this collection of dense headphone music feels like a creative breakthrough for Trent Reznor. A new-media showpiece like Radiohead's In Rainbows, Ghosts I-IV is a self-released kiss-off to Reznor's former label, Universal, which he ditched last year after months of public feuding. You can download part of it (free) or all 1.8 hours ($5), or order it in various physical configurations (the $300 limited edition has already sold out to fanatics). Musically, Ghosts rewards close attention....full text

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