“Lights In The Sky” - Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor released the new NIN album The Slip on Monday. I’ve only listened through it a couple of times so far but my favorite track at this point is “Lights In The Sky.”

It sounds a bit like “1 Ghosts” as far as mood goes. Without the heavy distortion that’s on the piano in that track. The song consists of Reznor’s whispered vocal over a simple & clean piano with the faintest ambient sounds entering at about half way through the song. It’s a very minimalist track and I think the simple & clean arrangement works really well.

One of my favorite things about the song is how it melts into the following instrumental track “Corona Radiata.” It’s a perfect follow-up mood wise. It takes the lyrical ideas of “Lights In The Sky” and morphs them into an intriguing ambient sound scape.

Listen to “Lights In The Sky”

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