Nine Inch Nails have released Nine Inch Noize, a collaborative album with German music producer Boys Noize, out via Interscope Records. The album was announced last week ahead of their performance at Coachella.
“The creative fulfillment of working on the Challengers and TRON scores with Boys Noize led me to think that including him in the Peel It Back tour could be an interesting way to express NIN in more purely electronic terms live — a concept I’ve wanted to explore for some time,” Trent Reznor says. “The result was so much fun for us we felt it was worth expanding and formalizing in some way… We recorded this album all over the place — some of it’s live, some in studios, hotels, and planes. We had a lot of fun revisiting these songs and hope you enjoy.”
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The performance between NIN and Boys Noize last week was described by Reznor as a decision that was made “on a whim.” “I mentioned it would be cool to play a whole set as Nine Inch Noize in the Sahara tent at Coachella. Careful what you wish for… The next thing I knew, we were designing a whole new show to present in the way it deserved.”
“They could have asked me anything, I would drop everything and do it,” Alex Ridha of Boys Noize said last year about their Challengers collaboration. “Nine Inch Nails were always a reference to my music, especially on my last album, where I explored some of that more industrial sound. It’s quite abstract still. I’m so happy. It’s just crazy for me to, you know, tap into that world and work with legends that are also so nice.”
Stream Nine Inch Noize below.
Nine Inch Nails – Nine Inch Noize tracklist
- “Intro” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Vessel” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “She’s Gone Away” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Heresy” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Parasite” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Copy Of A” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Me I’m Not” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Closer” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “The Warning” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Memorabilia” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “Came Back Haunted” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
- “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” (Nine Inch Noize Version)
