The Girl With The Downward Spiral…

Since placing Nine Inch Nails on the back burner for the foreseeable future – multi-instrumentalist mastermind, Trent Reznor, has hardly remained quiet. The hiatus he created for himself by hanging-up the touring boots of NIN lead to the opportunities of follow-up band ‘How to Destroy Angels‘ with wife Mariqueen Maandig and English producer, Atticus Ross. Yet, despite the release of a self-titled EP 2010, the allure of David Fincher was too hard to suppress as Reznor and Ross went on to Oscar glory with their soundtrack to The Social Network – and the rest is history.

So it comes as little surprise that Fincher, happy with the eargasms presented to him by the Reznor/Ross collaboration on their first cinematic outing together, asked the duo to again compose the soundtrack to his latest adaptation; Stieg Larssons record-breaking best-seller, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Since Fincher’s use of Closer in Se7en through to his video interpretation of NIN’s Only from the 2005 album With Teeth, It has been hard to separate the sounds of Reznor to the pace and mind of Fincher – Reznor truly does enhance a David Fincher creation.

As reported earlier, indications of the direction Ross and Reznor were taking were fitting to the sights presented, if not completely ambiguous as in the much discussed teaser trailer, we heard a synth-tech version of Zeppelin’s The Immigrant Song screeched over by Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist, Karen O.

Today, we get somewhat of a better idea – part of the score has been released online (thanks to Slashfilm and Aintitcool).

Foreboding and haunting – listening to it only tells you half the picture of what we can expect in January 2012 – but that’s not to say it won’t leave an impression.