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At 36 tracks, Ghosts is as impressively ambitious as it is uneven and stunted.
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This album is surely a success, its just there is a lot of things that a great album like 'My Life in the Bush of The Ghosts' (which Ghosts sincerely seems indebted to) have that are missing here.
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It's basically a minimalist record that coasts on one's predilection for NINoise.
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Even if every one of these tracks stands as a formal experiment unto itself, after an hour or two these half-formed ideas begin to bleed indistinctly into each other, evolving into puddles of vaguely ominous aural mush.
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It's meant to be taken as surface, perhaps skimmed for samples, but generally to be used as mildly unsettling mood music--a specialty of Reznor's, to be sure, but he's better and scarier when his ideas are more finely honed than they are here.
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BlenderThe album could easily have come from Boards of Canada or any number of downcast groups--if it were shorter. [May 2008, p.78]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 78 out of 88
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Mixed: 6 out of 88
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Negative: 4 out of 88
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BobS.Apr 16, 2008Ghosts is Amazing! Trent is the most vital artist in the music industry today. The man is a f*cking genius!
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JimmyR.Apr 24, 2008This is really different, and that is a good thing.
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BradleyH.Apr 14, 2008