Llamasoft Presents... NINE INCH NAILS
July 13, 2017 10:18 AM Subscribe
The first video from the new Nine Inch Nails EP has been released, and it has an unexpected ingredient: A hefty helping of urban legend turned Jeff Minter game Polybius.
@llamasoft_ox helping out with the video for the new NIN was one of the most unexpected but most fun bits of work I've had, we really enjoyed it :D
This whole business makes me so weirdly happy. The video really conveys the feel of being really in the zone with a game, and Llamasoft games are of course the zoniest games that ever did zone.
posted by Artw at 10:33 AM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
This whole business makes me so weirdly happy. The video really conveys the feel of being really in the zone with a game, and Llamasoft games are of course the zoniest games that ever did zone.
posted by Artw at 10:33 AM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
As an old-school NTSC 4.53 MHz dot-crawl interlaced-fields kinda guy, this video pleases me.
posted by infinitewindow at 11:08 AM on July 13, 2017
posted by infinitewindow at 11:08 AM on July 13, 2017
Llamasoft Presents... NINE INCH NAILS
It's "THE Nine Inch Nails", thank you.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:35 AM on July 13, 2017 [8 favorites]
It's "THE Nine Inch Nails", thank you.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:35 AM on July 13, 2017 [8 favorites]
Mmm, maybe I get the reference now. We all less than three you, Trent Reznor!
posted by pwnguin at 11:58 AM on July 13, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by pwnguin at 11:58 AM on July 13, 2017 [3 favorites]
Polybius is a slice of 120fps genius on PS4. But hardcore.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 12:56 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by GallonOfAlan at 12:56 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
Polybius is insane in VR. In a good way.
posted by auntie-matter at 1:26 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by auntie-matter at 1:26 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
This is a quality NIN song.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 1:55 PM on July 13, 2017
posted by DrAstroZoom at 1:55 PM on July 13, 2017
Lawksamercy, That blew the cobwebs away.
I stuck my headphones on, put the monitor an inch from my nose, and went for it. Really did feel like dropping out of hyperspace when I had to return to reality.
(And then I got locked in a hotel room and turned into into a Starchild.)
I love the little dabs of some old-skool Numanesque synths pootling away. Scan lines, saturated colours, no-prisoner editing, and yeah, a fine track.
10/10.
(Not sure what to do next. But I'll think of something. A return match with Reznor/Minter? Why yes, why not.)
posted by Devonian at 3:31 PM on July 13, 2017
I stuck my headphones on, put the monitor an inch from my nose, and went for it. Really did feel like dropping out of hyperspace when I had to return to reality.
(And then I got locked in a hotel room and turned into into a Starchild.)
I love the little dabs of some old-skool Numanesque synths pootling away. Scan lines, saturated colours, no-prisoner editing, and yeah, a fine track.
10/10.
(Not sure what to do next. But I'll think of something. A return match with Reznor/Minter? Why yes, why not.)
posted by Devonian at 3:31 PM on July 13, 2017
Trent Reznor is very, very good at what he does.
posted by Spathe Cadet at 4:12 PM on July 13, 2017
posted by Spathe Cadet at 4:12 PM on July 13, 2017
New NIN, now with elements of synthwave/retrowave? That is very awesome.
Hmm, no EP preorder in iTunes, just the single.
Also somehow I completely missed "Not The Actual Events"…
posted by floatboth at 4:17 PM on July 13, 2017
Hmm, no EP preorder in iTunes, just the single.
Also somehow I completely missed "Not The Actual Events"…
posted by floatboth at 4:17 PM on July 13, 2017
Am I less than? Less than what?
i love this chorus because i think it leaves the essential point of the song unsaid:
"Did it fix what was wrong with you?
Are you less than (or equal to)?"
posted by JimBennett at 4:59 PM on July 13, 2017 [4 favorites]
i love this chorus because i think it leaves the essential point of the song unsaid:
"Did it fix what was wrong with you?
Are you less than (or equal to)?"
posted by JimBennett at 4:59 PM on July 13, 2017 [4 favorites]
It's not often that a MeFi post informs me of two things I need to spend money on immediately. Thanks. I think.
posted by bitmage at 6:26 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by bitmage at 6:26 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
Here is a link to Trent's Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe where they discuss the EP, including its 11:44 (!!!) final track "The Background World".
posted by JimBennett at 8:01 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by JimBennett at 8:01 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
I love the little dabs of some old-skool Numanesque synths pootling away.
I fell down a Gary Numan/Tubeway Army YouTube hole last week and was pleasantly surprised to find that NIN brought Numan out on stage for a couple of songs at a London gig at some point in the recent past, which is interesting as this NIN song sounds very Numan-esque and NIN seems to have rubbed off on Numan, based on this "Re-Cover" of "Are Friends Electric" Numan did.
posted by KingEdRa at 8:20 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
I fell down a Gary Numan/Tubeway Army YouTube hole last week and was pleasantly surprised to find that NIN brought Numan out on stage for a couple of songs at a London gig at some point in the recent past, which is interesting as this NIN song sounds very Numan-esque and NIN seems to have rubbed off on Numan, based on this "Re-Cover" of "Are Friends Electric" Numan did.
posted by KingEdRa at 8:20 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
Numan and Reznor have quite a bit of history by now - Numan came on stage at the London Palladium in 2009 and did a couple of numbers, and you don't have to have golden ears to hear the NIN influence in his industrial-metal stuff of late. But then, Numan pops up in some odd places - Afrikaa Bambaataa adding rap and Blondie to Metal is but one example...
posted by Devonian at 11:11 PM on July 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Devonian at 11:11 PM on July 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
Here's the story on the special version of Polybius for the video.
posted by netowl at 1:00 PM on July 14, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by netowl at 1:00 PM on July 14, 2017 [1 favorite]
if you can play this in VR you must, it's absolutely incredible and also carefully designed to minimize motion sickness.
posted by vogon_poet at 1:15 PM on July 14, 2017
posted by vogon_poet at 1:15 PM on July 14, 2017
You also missed out on Everything , apparently.
While a member of the genre, it was kind of using the upbeat tone and chorus ironically. A sort of middle finger to a variety of things, including synthwave.
posted by pwnguin at 3:13 PM on July 14, 2017
While a member of the genre, it was kind of using the upbeat tone and chorus ironically. A sort of middle finger to a variety of things, including synthwave.
posted by pwnguin at 3:13 PM on July 14, 2017
Huh. After reading this thread, I was excited to listen to the song. Unfortunately, it didn't really do anything for me. I think I probably loved both Broken and Fixed more than anything else I listened to in the early-to-mid 90s. But eventually NiN just started sounding uninteresting to me and this just seems like more of the same. And I find that Trent's music hasn't aged that well for me -- there's a whole bunch of stuff from the 90s that I listen to now more than I did then, and NiN not at all. And I think that today's various subgenres that can trace part of their lineages back to NiN are much more interesting.
But I don't want to rain on anyone's parade or be all "your favorite band sucks". The stuff that has aged very well for me (for example, I realized the other day that I've been listening to Dark Side of the Moon regularly now for thirty-nine years) gives me a great deal of pleasure -- perhaps more than the music did when it was new to me. The stuff that hasn't aged well, though, is always a disappointment to listen to again, like falling out of love or something. So I sort of envy the folks who are still in love with NiN.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 3:14 AM on July 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
But I don't want to rain on anyone's parade or be all "your favorite band sucks". The stuff that has aged very well for me (for example, I realized the other day that I've been listening to Dark Side of the Moon regularly now for thirty-nine years) gives me a great deal of pleasure -- perhaps more than the music did when it was new to me. The stuff that hasn't aged well, though, is always a disappointment to listen to again, like falling out of love or something. So I sort of envy the folks who are still in love with NiN.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 3:14 AM on July 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
if you bought the ep from nin.com it's available to download now
posted by JimBennett at 6:10 PM on July 19, 2017
posted by JimBennett at 6:10 PM on July 19, 2017
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