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June 28th, 2018 12:12am

Snouts In The Dirt


Nine Inch Nails “Ahead of Ourselves”

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed so much music for film that the aesthetics of film pacing have carried over their work in Nine Inch Nails. “Ahead of Ourselves” strikes me a distinctly cinematic song – it sounds like a chase sequence cut between multiple perspectives, with the loudest and most abrasive moments of the chorus presented less like chord changes and more like sudden smash cuts. The drums are the focus all the way through, starting at a maniac pace but speeding up with drum fills that seem to swerve across the song like the beat’s taking a shortcut. There’s something cartoonish about those fills, and I like the way this musical element that strikes me as rather un-NIN contrasts with the rest of the composition, which is full-on NIN aesthetic.

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