Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

the production is just ridiculously good

Various Methods of Escape's chorus reminds me of an older NIN song. Going crazy trying to figure out which one though.

Hey this is actually pretty good so far

Although I'm not sure why he wrote a song about trying to find his weed

Zole.

The end of Running sounds like 'I'm running out of money now'

i really like this album, especially "everything" and "satellite". what is wrong with me, lol.

would love to know what songs he's "covering". i don't really hear any old nine inch nails in a lot of this material. it sounds "revitalized" to me. but then i'm not a big fan.

  On 8/31/2013 at 1:07 AM, modey said:

Various Methods of Escape's chorus reminds me of an older NIN song. Going crazy trying to figure out which one though.

Sunspots?

Nah, I figured it out. The last chorus in The Fragile!

Pleasantly suprised by this, Sounds fresh and funky but still very much NIN

The album is over-over-OVER-compressed! My ears are bleeding...brain squizzzzzed.

I doubt that alternate mastering will resolve this cause the over-compression happened mostly in the mixing stage IMO. But, will see...

WFT. I thought you all were joking about an OPN mix of NIN on this album. I just found out that wasn't just a joke.

i would for you is one of my go-to tracks at the moment.

this album is surprisingly good! not what i was expecting at all.

sleek, minimal, synthetic, and very funky.

without a doubt the best rhythm programming he's ever done.

the whole album is a showcase of amazing sound design, mixing, and mastering.

just based on a first listen it sounds like Adrian Belew had a strong influence on this. I'm hearing his style on a lot of the tracks.

if i was forced to compare this to Trents other work i would say it has the synthetic funkyness of Year Zero combined with the sound design and obsessive attention to detail of the Fragile.

the only misstep was using Russel Mills for the album artwork. this album really doesn't remind me of Downward Spiral at all in terms of sound, structure, or lyrics. it strong enough to stand on it's own without being compared to a previous work. plus Mills organic & decayed aesthetic, while very cool, is not a good fit for the sound of this album in my opinion.

  On 9/2/2013 at 10:23 AM, digit said:

this album is surprisingly good! not what i was expecting at all.

sleek, minimal, synthetic, and very funky.

 

without a doubt the best rhythm programming he's ever done.

the whole album is a showcase of amazing sound design, mixing, and mastering.

 

just based on a first listen it sounds like Adrian Belew had a strong influence on this. I'm hearing his style on a lot of the tracks.

 

if i was forced to compare this to Trents other work i would say it has the synthetic funkyness of Year Zero combined with the sound design and obsessive attention to detail of the Fragile.

 

the only misstep was using Russel Mills for the album artwork. this album really doesn't remind me of Downward Spiral at all in terms of sound, structure, or lyrics. it strong enough to stand on it's own without being compared to a previous work. plus Mills organic & decayed aesthetic, while very cool, is not a good fit for the sound of this album in my opinion.

^ this, definitely. I'm starting to hear more of Belew's influence the more I listen.

Giving it a listen for the first time on speakers (as opposed to my usual headphones on the way to work style), fairly loud. Sounds fucking massive!

Some extra stuff:

42 minute long talk about the album from Trenty Trent -

Demos/cut stuff from the album from that talk:

Cool Demos! Some songs are great on this album... others not so much

  On 9/3/2013 at 11:36 AM, Gravity said:

Some extra stuff:

 

42 minute long talk about the album from Trenty Trent -

 

 

 

Demos/cut stuff from the album from that talk:

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice

if came back haunted and everything were dropped from this, it would be close to perfect IMO

I was kind of indifferent to Came Back Haunted when I first heard it, but I think it works better in the context of the album... definitely liking this album more with every listen, feels good to have my faith in Reznor restored after all this time.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-associated-press-thinks-johnny-cash-wrote-nine,102400/

lol

  On 9/3/2013 at 11:36 AM, Gravity said:

Some extra stuff:

 

42 minute long talk about the album from Trenty Trent -

 

 

Demos/cut stuff from the album from that talk:

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for posting, listened to the whole tape. Love the 'swarm of hummingbirds' in the background. TR has a rather addictive voice, I find it mesmerizing (not sure if this is me being a bit homo lol)

On a funny note I still havent listened to the album. Will do soon.

i find it mesmerizing how humorless he sounds when speaking, he has such an overly serious tone of his voice it's weirding me out. I think the guy could use a little bit of recreational drug use, he doesn't seem any happier after obtaining his double D hot gf

  On 9/5/2013 at 12:10 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

i find it mesmerizing how humorless he sounds when speaking, he has such an overly serious tone of his voice it's weirding me out. I think the guy could use a little bit of recreational drug use, he doesn't seem any happier after obtaining his double D hot gf

yeah...could be that now he knows for sure they're silicone implants

are they? pics pls

  On 9/5/2013 at 12:28 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

are they? pics pls

nothing suspicious here but could be an old pic

i mean the girl is perfect so why is he so serious?! i'm puzzled

isn't he a dad as well?

she's alright, nothing to write home about.

I'm gonna go grab this on vinyl at some point the week. Enough of the tracks caught my ear and grew on me. At first I was appalled at the few singles that leaked both by legit release or live but the album in a whole has enough solid tracks to warrant a purchase. I also feel bad for pirating every NIN album since The Fragile, tho I do own almost every single Halo up until that point.