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==Track List==
===CD/Digital===
#"[[Shit Mirror]]" – 3:06
#"[[Ahead Of Ourselves]]" – 3:30
#"[[I'm Not From This World]]" – 6:41
#"[[Over And Out]]" – 7:49
===Vinyl===
A1 "Shit Mirror" – 3:06<br />
A2 "Ahead Of Ourselves" – 3:30<br />
A3 "Play The Goddamned Part" – 4:51<br />
B1 "God Break Down The Door" – 4:14<br />
B2 "I'm Not From This World" – 6:41<br />
B3 "Over And Out" – 7:49<br />
==Formats==
==About==
''Bad Witch'' was officially announced on May 10, 2018. The official [[nin.com]] website description states: <blockquote>"CONCLUSION. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL.<" This is likely a reference to [https:/blockquote>/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave Plato's allegory of the cave].
On May 19, 2018, at "The Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was made available for those in attendance. It gave fans the opportunity to hear the songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and "Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release.
<blockquote>Clearly, Bowie is front of mind, and that was certainly an influence. In terms of the precision of arrangement, I think back to [being] younger, reading about Psychedelic Furs as a bunch of students that all picked instruments and learned enough to make a record. As someone that had studied his ass off how to play an instrument, I thought, "You can do that?" Some people worried about technique or if it’s in tune, or if it’s played well. [For ''Bad Witch'', I thought] let’s just use it and add to the mayhem and message we are trying to convey. All this time [the sax] had been just sitting in my studio staring at me. Taunting me.</blockquote>
Unlike the two preceding EPs, the title of ''Bad Witch'' is not derived from a lyric sung or printed in the album’s digital or liner notes. A definitive explanation of the title is yet to be revealed.
==Live==
All songs from ''Bad Witch'' have been played live except "Play The Goddamned Part" and "I'm Not From This World".
==Artwork==
[[Image:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]]
[[Image:Despair.jpeg|thumb|''Despair'' by Perham Nahl]]
The "scratch marks" seen in the ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border of the back cover of this album.
An alternate front cover was found, depicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxes, as well as a different hand and a different computer chip. The alternate cover appeared on a Caroline Records promo CD.
The middle bottom row image is adapted from a painting entitled ''Despair'' by Perham Nahl.[https://archive.org/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] The computer chip, within the fifth box, appears to be an image of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU]. In an interview with ''Rolling Stone''[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nine-inch-nails-atticus-ross-talks-stage-fright-and-trent-reznors-musical-genius-702117/], Atticus Ross commented: "There's a primitive aspect or reflection of who we are in these times on there. It seems like we've been led. And I think we implied that in the cover, staring at shadows on the wall." In an interview with Covet The Cover on Instagram[https://www.instagram.com/covet_the_cover/p/C4OmwiFLpJo/?img_index=1], designer Hassan Rahim elaborated more on the design process:<blockquote>"Trent provided two key words: primitive spirituality," says Rahim. The NIN frontman Reznor went on to say that ''Bad Witch'' represented "not literally witchcraft but the unexplainable, magic, nature, belief… not in the scientific kind of way but the unknowable, what’s beyond the threshold of death." After researching hundreds of public domain photos around the themes, the final creative solution was to make the cover "a sequential puzzle of images. More cryptic than explanatory. Alluding to unidentified aerial phenomena, fear, superstition, collapse of civilisation, and ultimately rebirth."
==Credits==
© 2018 Form and Texture (ASCAP) / Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Songs In the Key of Mink (BMI) / Administered by Downtown DMP Songs
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