"In 1982, groundbreaking electronic music composer Wendy Carlos collaborated with the London Philharmonic Orchestra created a whole new sound to capture life inside a video game. In 2010, Daft Punk crafted its own sonic world for TRON: Legacy, leading to some of the group's best music ever. And succeeding them is Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as Nine Inch Nails, whose soundtrack for TRON: Ares has been released three weeks before the actual movie comes out."
"All that's really known about TRON: Ares at this stage, based on the trailers, is that it's about a computer program (Jared Leto) who wants to be alive. This means we can focus on examining the soundtrack by how well it functions as an album, while also considering the difference between a "Nine Inch Nails" soundtrack and a "Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross" soundtrack - if such a difference exists."
"When Reznor and Ross spoke to Consequence in 2024 about their scores for Luca Guadagnino's Queer and Challengers, they were in progress on the Ares score. At that time, Reznor was saying that "we're gonna smear things up a little bit and probably confuse some people and confuse ourselves in the process." In this case, using the moniker of NIN for this album has given them the freedom to lean harder into their rougher industrial edges, while still delivering moments of beauty and grace."
TRON's musical legacy began with Wendy Carlos's 1982 collaboration with the London Philharmonic, creating electronic orchestral textures to evoke a video game world. Daft Punk's 2010 TRON: Legacy produced a distinct hybrid of synth and orchestral beauty. Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) released the TRON: Ares soundtrack three weeks before the film, allowing assessment as an album. The NIN moniker permits grittier industrial sounds while retaining occasional moments of melodic grace. The album opens with "INIT," which sets a digital, dark atmosphere with hard synth beats and builds into full songs like "As Alive As You Need Me to Be."
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