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Who wants A.I. when you’ve gotten Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross continually choosing up movie composition jobs? Nine Inch Nails are feeling cinematic on “As Alive as You Want Me to Be,” their first launch underneath the band title in 5 years.
The tune seems on the 24-track soundtrack they created for Tron: Ares, out Sept. 19 forward of the October launch of the sci-fi movie about people crossing paths with A.I. beings for the primary time.
Whereas 9 Inch Nails itself has been largely dormant since 2020’s Ghosts album sequence, Reznor and Ross have nonetheless been busy working behind the scenes. Final 12 months, the pair scored Luca Guadagnino’s Queer and crafted an alluring, techno-driven soundtrack for his tennis throuple movie Challengers. They may be a part of him once more on his upcoming movie After the Hunt, out in October. Reznor and Ross additionally created music for the Apple TV+ movie The Gorge, launched earlier this 12 months. Every of those initiatives was credited to the musicians by their very own names, relatively than 9 Inch Nails.
Reznor and Ross have composed dozens of scores throughout movie and tv and have beforehand gained Oscars for his or her work on The Social Community and Soul. With the Tron: Ares soundtrack, they’ve a shot at scoring some extra accolades with the band title on the forefront.
The latest installment within the Tron sequence, Tron: Legacy, arrived in 2010 with a rating from Daft Punk. In 2020, Disney’s President of Music & Soundtracks, Mitchell Leib, expressed interest in having the duo return for the upcoming sequel. Leib retired later that 12 months, simply two months earlier than Daft Punk introduced they might be breaking apart after 28 years.
Final month, 9 Inch Nails kicked off their Peel It Back Tour, their first tour in three years, with a setlist filled with songs they haven’t performed stay in a decade or extra. Reznor carried out “Proper The place It Belongs” solo on the piano, marking the primary efficiency of the report since 2009. With the remainder of the band assembled, 9 Inch Nails revived “Ruiner” and “Piggy (Nothing Can Cease Me Now)” for the primary time in 16 years.
From Rolling Stone US.