Bleep

Nine Inch Nails’ perfectly selected soundtrack for TRON: Ares was already high stakes, but their companion album Divergence raises the bar even higher. As guttural bass shreds throughout, NIN contrast their own unreleased scores of whirring glitches and hard edged electro with remixes amplifying the soundtrack’s digital paranoia, from Mark Pritchard’s tense dubby snaps and guitar wails to Arca’s spectral blossoms and raw bass boosted club beats. Artists explore the full range of TRON’s virtual reality: Pixel Grip warp searing stabs into dazzling EBM pop, Lanark Artefax contorts vocal bursts and trance spikes, and Jack Dangers’ corkscrewing pneumatic drums feel like a “crawling through vents” stealth sequence.