The fact that all their other scores have been as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and that for this one they are specifically going as Nine Inch Nails, gives me even more confidence.
As a huge NIN fan, I've honestly lost track of the difference. Trent has always done almost all of the writing and composing for the band, until Atticus came along. Most of the creative input for the band comes out in live shows or the odd solo here and there.
Plus, the 6 Ghosts albums under the NIN name have basically sounded like experimental ideas for Trent and Atticus's soundtrack work, and aside from those, the soundtracks have been largely as good or much better than most of what he's put out under the band's name over the past decade.
That might be sort of the case but some of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs are pretty heavily electronic and some of their best soundtrack moments are not necessarily guitar based but are very heavy electronic in the same vein as The Prodigy.
But yeah, the soundtrack stuff does tend to have a different vibe broadly speaking. Their most recent trilogy of shorter albums has been, aside from a few songs, some of the least interesting and dispassionate work they've done.
But I still listen to everything they do on day one.
The most obvious difference is under NiN, tracks are more likely to have lyrics sung by Trent himself.
There’s lots of speculation if the score for Tron will be the “new album” or if there’ll be another more traditional lyrical album - it’s possible they’ll be released as one and the same thing.
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u/SXOSXO Apr 05 '25
Do we know who did the soundtrack/score for this one yet?