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For those that are interested Reznor's latest album is due April this year. Here is the latest interview with Kerrang with few details on it.
NINE INCH NAILS
A new NIN album already? Oh go on then...
Your last album took six years. We've only had to wait 18 months for this one.
Trent Reznor (vocals): "It's been pretty interesting, I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When i was on the last tour, to keep myself busy i was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when i finished the tour i felt like i wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."
Is there anyone else playing on the album?
"It's all me, mostly recorded in hotel rooms around the world on laptops. There maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there - although i don't want to say who since the final mix hasn't been determined yet, and Josh Freese is playing the drums on one song, but it's not like a big guest star-type record. It feels a bit more focused in a certain direction than 'With Teeth' did,"
What's the concept?
"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but i will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of thing's I'm working on. Essentially i wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhyme plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."
Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?
"My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."
Will it be a heavy album?
"It's not heavy in any kind of metal tyoe sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonically would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."
On 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers - is this moving further in that direction?
"Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a Pro-Tools session has alot of tracks and this time he was like 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?'. The end result has a bit of racket to it, it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record i feel alot less concerned about what people think about it - espcially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."
And another smaller article
"I'VE GOT MY CONFIDENCE BACK!"
Trent Reznor predicts forthcoming album will be NIN's finest work.
NIN frontman Trent Reznor has revealed to Kerrang! that making the band's forthcoming fifth studio album has resulted in him feeling stronger and more self-assured thatn ever before.
Reznor is currently working on the follow-up to 2005's With Teeth in his home studio in LA but recorded a lot of new songs in hotel rooms around the world on laptops and a portable studio. Although remaining tight-lipped about the album's title and new song titles, Reznor did confess that writing and recording on the move has been "fun and inspiring."
"I feel a lot more confident recording this record than I did 'WIth Teeth'," Reznor reveals. "With Teeth was me kind of wondering if I could still even do this and being pretty cautious. And this one, I've got my confidence back. I feel stronger abaout what I have to say as an artist and I feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it. I feel personally that my best work's ahead of me," he adds. "I don't know if that's going to be the case in the public's opinion but that's out of my control, what I can do is try to make the best ******** I can and push myself and that's what I think this record is right now."
Reznor is not, however, feeling quite so optimistic about the rest of the current rock scene..........
"If I happen to accidentally turn the radio on and hear, for example, an emo type screamo band, I literally can't tell the difference between one of 20 bands," he sighed. "I think either I'm getting old, which is a fact, or I'm turning into my dad! I wonder about the person that's in a band, the young kid who just got signed or is trying to get signed - why is he doing it?," Reznor muses. "Is he trying to change the world and do something different and express himself, because that is why he wanted to do it. Or is it because they want to ******** Paris Hilton and be photographed outside trendy restaurants?"
NIN's new album is expected for release in April. The band also release a live DVD 'Live: Beside You In Time' on Feb 26
NINE INCH NAILS
A new NIN album already? Oh go on then...
Your last album took six years. We've only had to wait 18 months for this one.
Trent Reznor (vocals): "It's been pretty interesting, I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When i was on the last tour, to keep myself busy i was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when i finished the tour i felt like i wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."
Is there anyone else playing on the album?
"It's all me, mostly recorded in hotel rooms around the world on laptops. There maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there - although i don't want to say who since the final mix hasn't been determined yet, and Josh Freese is playing the drums on one song, but it's not like a big guest star-type record. It feels a bit more focused in a certain direction than 'With Teeth' did,"
What's the concept?
"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but i will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of thing's I'm working on. Essentially i wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhyme plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."
Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?
"My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."
Will it be a heavy album?
"It's not heavy in any kind of metal tyoe sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonically would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."
On 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers - is this moving further in that direction?
"Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a Pro-Tools session has alot of tracks and this time he was like 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?'. The end result has a bit of racket to it, it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record i feel alot less concerned about what people think about it - espcially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."
And another smaller article
"I'VE GOT MY CONFIDENCE BACK!"
Trent Reznor predicts forthcoming album will be NIN's finest work.
NIN frontman Trent Reznor has revealed to Kerrang! that making the band's forthcoming fifth studio album has resulted in him feeling stronger and more self-assured thatn ever before.
Reznor is currently working on the follow-up to 2005's With Teeth in his home studio in LA but recorded a lot of new songs in hotel rooms around the world on laptops and a portable studio. Although remaining tight-lipped about the album's title and new song titles, Reznor did confess that writing and recording on the move has been "fun and inspiring."
"I feel a lot more confident recording this record than I did 'WIth Teeth'," Reznor reveals. "With Teeth was me kind of wondering if I could still even do this and being pretty cautious. And this one, I've got my confidence back. I feel stronger abaout what I have to say as an artist and I feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it. I feel personally that my best work's ahead of me," he adds. "I don't know if that's going to be the case in the public's opinion but that's out of my control, what I can do is try to make the best ******** I can and push myself and that's what I think this record is right now."
Reznor is not, however, feeling quite so optimistic about the rest of the current rock scene..........
"If I happen to accidentally turn the radio on and hear, for example, an emo type screamo band, I literally can't tell the difference between one of 20 bands," he sighed. "I think either I'm getting old, which is a fact, or I'm turning into my dad! I wonder about the person that's in a band, the young kid who just got signed or is trying to get signed - why is he doing it?," Reznor muses. "Is he trying to change the world and do something different and express himself, because that is why he wanted to do it. Or is it because they want to ******** Paris Hilton and be photographed outside trendy restaurants?"
NIN's new album is expected for release in April. The band also release a live DVD 'Live: Beside You In Time' on Feb 26
