Not The Actual Events

[Frozen Beach]

I wonder when this will appear on Spotify? I wanted to listen to it first before I bought it.

[minusthesnake]

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I am really wondering what the fuck is up with the Still cover art that came with the FLACs. I ordered a vinyl and a physical object copy and went with WAV and FLAC so I have no idea about the MP3 cover art sadly but I am so baffled by this whole thing. It feels like The Fragile fucked With Teeth.

EDIT: Woah god I spoke too soon what the hell is Idea of You, this is the NIN I've been craving for years

Right? When I saw the black and white cover that copied Still's design, I figured "Oh it's rushed, so he just went with a kinda generic update of an older design," but redoing the EXACT cover of Still is just fucking baffling.

Also yes, "The Idea of You" is definitely my favorite after three listens.

[dpeters]

Don't know if the guy's ever sounded so...sinister. Modulation aside it feels like he's channelling sheer threat. A very loud, angry, percussive work for sure.

Definite Cohen/Waits vibes. There's an urgency to his vocals.

[implanted_microchip]

People were complaining that Atticus took heavy from NIN. He becomes a member and we have actual industrial metal again.

I'll take ten more Atticuses please

Also, how come the FLAC download didn't come with a booklet? Apparently lyrics were included with other formats? Really want to know what this man is yelling at me about

[Fred]

Second listen, and I am absolutely loving this. She's Gone Away and The Idea of You are both amazing. I'd say it's the most abrasive Trent has been since Broken or TDS, but even those works had moments that were more melodic than most of this. Did not expect this, but it makes for one hell of a Christmas present.

[NotoriousTIMP]

I wonder when this will appear on Spotify? I wanted to listen to it first before I bought it.

TR was quoted as saying these wouldn't appear on any digital streaming format when talking about the remasters. For $12, I think its worth the risk of just buying the EP and enjoying the tracks now rather than waiting.

[dionysus74]

Little help? Normally I'd buy a CD and be done with it, but there's no option for that, and I know next to nothing about all these digital formats. Could someone tell be which format I should select when ordering?

In the end I want a high quality format that I can burn to a disc, and then be able to rip from the disc later. Currently I use WMP for pretty much all my music stuff. I'd prefer the easiest possible way of doing this, and I'm hoping not to have to download/purchase additional programs.

Thanks in advance for helpful replies.

[ryanmcfly]

TR was quoted as saying these wouldn't appear on any digital streaming format when talking about the remasters. For $12, I think its worth the risk of just buying the EP and enjoying the tracks now rather than waiting.

NTAE on the store has links to Apple music and spotify, they're greyed out right now, but they are there. Probably will hit those platforms Friday.

[Shnoorum]

HUZZAH! It finally came! So did I!

[ManBurning]

On my second listen... Tracks 1 and 2 are better than I remembered! This is growing on me nicely. Wasn't sure what to think at first, but this is good!

(That fact that I am listening to this at 1:10am and he says "Yes, everyone seems to be asleep" is just too funny... They literally are all asleep. Except us nut-ball NIN fans that stayed up for this. (This isn't staying up for me though. My normal bedtime is around 3am, so this is nothing unusual to me))

[shagg_187]

Best opening track for an album since The Fragile. Wow.

Already on my 2nd play for the EP. Like wow! Please continue in this direction, TR/AR!

[gamecat235]

Curious, are the lyrics embedded in the wav or FLAC files? I'm a crazy person and ordered mp3's, and the files have the artwork and lyrics embedded in them.

Also, my god, this EP is amazing. It is about as inaccessible to listen to, without context or mood, as anything I could have imagined coming from NIN. BIG. NOISEY. Glorious.

[sheepdean]

I have a weird issue: pre ordered the album twice on 2 different orders, only got one email and it was for MP3, no booklet. So I seem to have merged the FLAC/MP3 orders, can anyone hmu with the booklet?

[Fred]

Little help? Normally I'd buy a CD and be done with it, but there's no option for that, and I know next to nothing about all these digital formats. Could someone tell be which format I should select when ordering?

In the end I want a high quality format that I can burn to a disc, and then be able to rip from the disc later. Currently I use WMP for pretty much all my music stuff. I'd prefer the easiest possible way of doing this, and I'm hoping not to have to download/purchase additional programs.

Thanks in advance for helpful replies.

If you use WMP and want a minimum of hassle, go for WAV. If you don't mind installing a third-party plugin for it (should take a minute or so), go with FLAC.

Both are lossless formats, but FLAC is slightly more compact (think of it as a zipped audio file, basically), and is being handled by more and more players out there, hardware and software alike. It also supports tagging, if you like to organise your music, so it's less of a "raw" audio format than WAV is.

[LaneSax]

still haven't received anything

[Lerxto]

Curious, are the lyrics embedded in the wav or FLAC files? I'm a crazy person and ordered mp3's, and the files have the artwork and lyrics embedded in them.

Also, my god, this EP is amazing. It is about as inaccessible to listen to, without context or mood, as anything I could have imagined coming from NIN. BIG. NOISEY. Glorious.

No lyrics embedded in FLAC afaic, would you mind sharing them here?

[Volband]

It's like The Way Out Is Through is in the background of Burning Fire.

[Elrickooo]

anyone still struggling to get their download link?

[shagg_187]

I have a weird issue: pre ordered the album twice on 2 different orders, only got one email and it was for MP3, no booklet. So I seem to have merged the FLAC/MP3 orders, can anyone hmu with the booklet?

There's a booklet? Both my FLAC and mp3 orders have none! No lyrics either.

[R37R0]

looks like the UK store has started working, just got the surprise email

[gamecat235]

No lyrics embedded in FLAC afaic, would you mind sharing them here?

Mods, if this is a breach of etiquette, please do what you must. =)

I'm leaving the formatting as it is in the files. So I apologize for the blocks of text and random spaces, but I blame TR.

Branches/Bones
still can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut yeah parts of me are slowing down and time is speeding up spiders crawling everywhere infected Japanese you can tell all your friends you’re just a tourist but you can’t understand what they’ve planned until you try to leave feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before well i don't know anymore and i don't care anymore feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before cold and black and infinite with nothing left to lose glassy bending flexible if you try to keep the flies away the makeup hides the bruise why are you here right now? i don't think you're supposed to be reading this her branches are the bones that break become a perfect line and no he won’t be just a man who’s Sometimes


he won't be just a man who's Sometimes


feels like i've been here before well i don't know anymore and i don't care anymore
i think i recognize
yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yeah i don't care anymore yeah don’t give a fuck anymore and i don't care anymore one way or another but the way things have a way finding order almost everything of you yes i have been here before yes i guess thought i was my proven false in false in one all of you but the way actual events a way of finding mattered what i thought of finding order almost of you i guess have a way of comfort in the past events but the way like I’ve been here the past not the but the way i of myself has proven before allowing myself to almost everything i thought events but the way sense of comfort in what i thought i have a way of actual events but the mattered what i thought the actual events but the actual events but been here before allowing of myself has proven in one way guess things have a of finding order almost my definition of myself you all of you myself to feel a feel a sense of thought i was my thought mattered what i have proven false to remember them and comfort in the past and you all of way of finding order you i guess things all of you i of myself has proven of myself has proven the way i choose in one way or i guess things have order almost everything i myself to feel a not the actual events in the past not remember them and you feels like I’ve been you i guess things i thought mattered what here before allowing myself way i choose to of finding order almost of finding order almost or another and you all of before allowing myself to allowing myself to feel way of finding order of myself has proven my definition of myself please go away from here please all of you i past not the actual like I’ve been here in one way or myself has proven false guess things have please go please please please yes i have been here before yes i have been here b



Dear World

yes, everyone seems to be asleep


hey look, you didn't even notice
you couldn't eventell
just when it started happ
ening maybe just as well
afterall everything is gettingunfamiliarnow
trajectory in decline
and webecome obsolete
a frame ata time


i'm locked inside here
i have to stay
with people who aren't here
all the way
pictures and faces
on display
people who aren't here
all the way


“you come when i call you”


IT is coming
And you didn't
even notice
You didn't even
notice
You didn't even
notice
You didn't even
notice
You
didn't even notice
You didn't even notice
You
didn't
even
notice
You didn't
even
notice
You didn't
even notice
You were missing


(left channel)
dear world, i can hardly recognize
you anymore
and yet i remain certain
thereis an answerin you
i feel like i have lived solong sometimes
run out of things to try to do
i can't concentrate mywayout
what about..?


(right channel)
I am leaving because I can’t recognize who i have been
You go on spoiling
Hey look it's happening
without me you didn't even notice
Of course it’s been happening all along
permanent intervals As you become obsolete whoareyou?
oh this place...
i can’t concentrate
Ibegin to gothrough another of that we havebeen.
(I have been entirely patient
but i know i can't trust myself with this again)
nono
not this time


i'm locked inside here i have to staywith people who aren't here
all the way
pictures and faces
on display
people who aren't here
all the way


yes, everyone seems to be asleep


She's Gone Away

you dig in places til your fingers bleed
spread the infection where you spill your seed
i can't remember what she came here for
i can't remember much of anything anymore












she's gone she's gone she's gone away












a little mouth opened up inside
yeah i was watching on the day she died
we keep licking while the skin turns black
cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)










she's gone she's gone she's gone away
















are you still here?


The Idea of You



maybe that was somebody else
maybe i was somebody else
I am sorry (for what it’s worth) if that means anything anymore. I think there’s something just wrong with me
i have been wondering
when did you know? you know, really know?
no no no no no i don’t think that’s going to happen here
you missed all that on the way out
and remember
i don’t want to remember anymore
maybe i was somebody else?
just go back to the idea of me
go back to the idea of me


none of this is happening


WAIT
WAKE
BREATHE
BELIEVE
HEY
YOU TELL YOURSELF


oh and
If I start to tell you anything please don’t pay attention. That’s not really me in there. I would never do that.
just go back to the idea of me
go back to that idea
can you even hear me over here?
can’t you feel it happening?
everything absorbing liquid twitching forming something terrible
the sores are gone
and you can hardly tell now but
that was someone else who isn’t here anymore


none of this is happening


hey,
can you hear?
it gets so lonely in here


Burning Bright (Field on Fire)

i’m going back
of course i am
as if i ever had a choice
back to what i always knew i was
on the inside
back to what i really am
look at this pathetic place i made
with little bits of sticks and hair and anything i found along the way
and tell yourself you know
you’re not really what you know you are
you know?
of course you do
i think i may have even listened to you i think i may have even listened to you
at the height of my demise


break through the surface and breathe


i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire
i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire


and oh my god i have missed you
it has been so long
i am stronger than i have ever been in my decline
for now i know i know for certain
shedding any
burn motherfucker
carry the carcass and throw it on
pull up a chair and watch
the flies come roaring out
and will surround the entire world
and blacken out the skies and every last one of you
like a plague of locusts
like an exit
like an end
like the end


i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire
i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire


it's getting hard to know which side is the dream
i can't tell if i am dreaming anymore

[implanted_microchip]

All of these songs are total winners. I'm dying to listen to this again and again and again and again until every single note is burned into my brain. This is the noisy, spacey, aggressive and brooding NIN I've always loved and have been desperate for more of these days.

[Jon]

I have a weird issue: pre ordered the album twice on 2 different orders, only got one email and it was for MP3, no booklet. So I seem to have merged the FLAC/MP3 orders, can anyone hmu with the booklet?

Same here please, the WAV version had nothing except audio.

[Slut]

I still don't understand why I wasn't charged shipping for my physical component order - all the way to Australia. Feels too good to be true.

Same here

Free Shipping was the default option and I was all over it

[minusthesnake]

What artwork is embedded in the MP3 files? Does each song have something unique? Thanks for posting the lyrics, going to listen again with these now!

[neorev]

All of these songs are total winners. I'm dying to listen to this again and again and again and again until every single note is burned into my brain. This is the noisy, spacey, aggressive and brooding NIN I've always loved and have been desperate for more of these days.

Agreed, mofo

[Frozen Beach]

TR was quoted as saying these wouldn't appear on any digital streaming format when talking about the remasters.

We're not talking about the remasters, we're talking about a new release. I could have sworn when this was announced, it said the EP would be available on release on all digital streaming services on release day. Can't find that info anymore, only "WILL BE AVAILABLE ON ALL DIGITAL PLATFORMS 12/23." I guess I misread that.

[bobbie solo]

Branches/Bones - Quick punch to the face. Closest thing to a single on here. Has a standard drum loop, but then a great standard bass guitar bass line. Trent's vocals are stretched in a way i've never heard. Bananas vocal delivery. NOT A SIMPLE INTRO...AN ACTUAL SONG.

Dear World, - the closest thing to the repetitive drum loop NIN sound of the last few years. But much more going on around the loop (and the loop has some balls unlike most of the crap Atticus was pumping out). Extremely layered sound. Alot going on here...drony synths going on all around you, flanging left & right. Bleeps & bloops. Filtered, deep voice spoken word vocals are buried a bit, also in stereo. Straightforward Trent singing , not angry. ends with a robot computer voice saying "Yes, Everyone Seems To Be Asleep", which is fitting considering I'm fucking listening to this at 4:15am.

She's Gone Away - Percussive slow dirge. Drony sounds & wailing vocals around a percussive beat and heavy, slow bassline. Snare hits hard. Trent ripping out some really tearing, pained vocals on the second "verse". Chorus is "SHE'S GONE...SHE'S GONE...SHE'S GONE AWAY' in a deep, subdued doubled vocal. Then he yells & moans heavily. Some cool quick Closer/That's What I Get synth stabs at the end.

The Idea of You - Other song that could maybe be a "single" on here...but not really. Not a verse/chorus/verse song, but close. HEAVY guitars and live sounding drums (but you can they're not live except maybe on the chorus part & breakdown)!!! Whispered spoken word vocals to open like the ones in Closer & would be considered the "verses". Fast song. Yelled vocals on the chorus. Really cool bridge/breakdown with some extremely obtuse electronic sounds and heavy metal style drums. I would say a blend of Broken style NIN & With Teeth style. Tell tale NIN synthy, traily chords & vocals towards the end.

Burning Bright (Field on Fire) - Woah. Kinda like 10 Miles High off The Fragile? Slow, dirging beats with tons of drony sounds swirling around Trent's extremely filtered, buried in the mix vocals. Vocals are basically spoken word except for during the chorus. Fragile-esque music break 3:37 then the beat kicks right back in, and Fragile-esque guitar plucking in parts as well. Noisy, Mr. Self-Destruct style outro.

Not a political album from what I can tell, despite the way his messages a few days ago seems to indicate. I love it. It's great and nothing like Hesitation Marks. Def. not an easy listen if you're not a NIN buff already. This is a B+ at the least.

[Beta]

what is the quickest way to get this digitally?

[Harry Seaward]

yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yeah i don't care anymore yeah don’t give a fuck anymore and i don't care anymore one way or another but the way things have a way finding order almost everything of you yes i have been here before yes i guess thought i was my proven false in false in one all of you but the way actual events a way of finding mattered what i thought of finding order almost of you i guess have a way of comfort in the past events but the way like I’ve been here the past not the but the way i of myself has proven before allowing myself to almost everything i thought events but the way sense of comfort in what i thought i have a way of actual events but the mattered what i thought the actual events but the actual events but been here before allowing of myself has proven in one way guess things have a of finding order almost my definition of myself you all of you myself to feel a feel a sense of thought i was my thought mattered what i have proven false to remember them and comfort in the past and you all of way of finding order you i guess things all of you i of myself has proven of myself has proven the way i choose in one way or i guess things have order almost everything i myself to feel a not the actual events in the past not remember them and you feels like I’ve been you i guess things i thought mattered what here before allowing myself way i choose to of finding order almost of finding order almost or another and you all of before allowing myself to allowing myself to feel way of finding order of myself has proven my definition of myself please go away from here please all of you i past not the actual like I’ve been here in one way or myself has proven false guess things have please go please please please yes i have been here before yes i have been here b

Correct me if I'm wrong but... most of this shit makes no sense right? And all of these lyrics aren't even in the actual song.