As a passionate fan of Trent Reznor's music for nearly a quarter-century, I knew this review would be quite an undertaking, but now the time has come to step up and swing. My initial thrill came early this year, when Nine Inch Nails' founder announced that his legendary band would not only be returning to the stage in 2013 after a four-year hiatus (and five years away from the studio), but had already been at work on the new album Hesitation Marks, so the excitement and anticipation was understandably high. The title, which refers to the tenuous flesh wounds made by someone contemplating suicide, suggested we were about to visit another very dark corner of Reznor's psyche – an idea reinforced by the return of mixed media artist Russell Mills, who created the cover for the band's darkest, most emotionally devastating album The Downward Spiral. But then came that inevitable...
- 9/4/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Nine Inch Nails released four covers for their upcoming eighth studio album, "Hesitation Marks," on Wednesday. The band debuted cover artwork for its digital album, deluxe album, standard album, and vinyl album. All covers feature artwork by Russell Mills, who designed the cover for the band's 1994 album, "The Downward Spiral."
"This renewed collaboration very quickly suggested massive potential for the strange and the familiar to collide and collude in works that I hoped would encapsulate, by allusion, suggestion, metaphor and association, the conceptual ideas imbued in the album as well as in the undertow of its sonic world," Mills said in a statement. "I've tried to make works that obliquely allude to the essence of the subject matter, to its emotional core. I hope that they will invite multiple readings."
Due out in September, "Hesitation Marks" is Nine Inch Nails' first album in five years. The band released its last album,...
"This renewed collaboration very quickly suggested massive potential for the strange and the familiar to collide and collude in works that I hoped would encapsulate, by allusion, suggestion, metaphor and association, the conceptual ideas imbued in the album as well as in the undertow of its sonic world," Mills said in a statement. "I've tried to make works that obliquely allude to the essence of the subject matter, to its emotional core. I hope that they will invite multiple readings."
Due out in September, "Hesitation Marks" is Nine Inch Nails' first album in five years. The band released its last album,...
- 7/17/2013
- by Madeline Boardman
- Huffington Post
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