New NIN album Hesitation Marks, 2013

Oh hey new single:

http://www.antiquiet.com/news/2013/06/listen-nine-inch-nails-came-back-haunted/

Hmm. Sounds sort of like a track someone would stick on the soundtrack to something. Which is to say, I dunno, not an A+ effort. But I'm glad to have him/it back.

Ann Powers just had an AMAZING comment on Twitter: "I think that NIN track feels oddly vegetarian or something"

Official SoundCloud

https://soundcloud.com/nineinchnails/came-back-haunted-2013

I support this more techy less abrasive direction (at least for one song).

No surprises from the new song. Enjoyable, brilliantly produced, absolutely nothing new in the melody/lyrics department.

Made it halfway through, couldn't get past the fact that he's using the exact same vocal cadence ("melody" would be too strong a word) as "Somewhat Damaged" (and probably a dozen other songs, but that was the one that stuck in my head).

Hesitation Marks is an awful album name, BTW.

I'm being negative. I still reckon this'll be pretty good.

I loved The Slip and have enjoyed the recent non-NIN projects, so my hopes have been actually kinda high, but this sounds like really unexciting more of the same stuff (and not even in 'well maybe they're trying to get a single doing well on rock radio' way).

I loved The Slip too - easily his best post-Downward Spiral album (lots of good songs on The Fragile, but really only one disc's worth at most).

Hmmm, I was extremely underwhelmed by the slip.

i feel like this new track would be more impressive if it was an instrumental

Yeah, apart from the vocals it's perfectly good.

No surprises from the new song. Enjoyable, brilliantly produced, absolutely nothing new in the melody/lyrics department.

OTM. I don't really turn to NIN for surprises anymore.

i like most everything about this song but man his vocals sound just kind of weary, but not in any compelling way. my first reaction honestly was "huh i wonder if he's blown his voice out and this is what we get from here on out." guitar tone (for the short time it shows up) is weirdly bland - trent obv needs to stop by my store, i have some pedals that could fix him right up.

I'd quite like him to write a couple of songs about being rich and happy. I'm sure they'd be awful, but I think the excersize would do him good.

I suggest he start off with one called 'I've got a hot wife and an Oscar'.

Lying in my bed
Oscar by my head
I look at my beautiful wife
Damn I love my LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE

WONDERFUL LIFE! WONDERFUL LIFE!

(To the tune of Terrible Lie)

I just want something... I just want something I could always buy

buy rights from geto boys, make song named "damn it feels good to be trent reznor", $$$

lmao this thread

I just watched "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" the other day, and I thought his score approached (subtle) self-parody at times. It worked really well for "Social Network," but here it was wall-to-wall menacing piano plink-plink, spooky drones and instruments that don't exists (TM).

i feel like this new track would be more impressive if it was an instrumental

― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, June 6, 2013 2:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^how I feel about most latter-day NIN

The Upward Mobility

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/51069-adrian-belew-quits-nine-inch-nails-it-didnt-work/

:(

saw the other day that he wasn't gonna be touring with them so this isn't too surprising right?

reposting my conception of the break:

Trent: Welcome to the team, Adrian.
Adrian: Yeah, this is exciting.

[Trent hands Adrian a box]

Adrian: What's this? A present?!
Trent: No, it's your wardrobe.
Adrian: My wardrobe.
Trent: Yeah.
Adrian: Like, the clothes you want me to wear? On stage?
Trent: Well, not just on stage. Also, in photos and pretty much any time you're out with us in public.
Adrian: So, like, suits?
Trent: Well, more like ... costumes.
Adrian: Costumes?
Trent: Yeah. And make-up.
Adrian: Make-up?
Trent: Yeah. Also, we're going to need to shave off your eyebrows.
Adrian: My ... eyebrows?
Trent: Yeah.
Adrian: You haven't shaved off your eyebrows, Trent.
Trent: It's my band. Don't you want to open up the box?

[Adrian opens the box]

Adrian: This looks like black fishnets and shiny plastic shirts.
Trent: That's right.
Adrian: And you want me to wear this?
Trent: Yep.
Adrian: See you later, sucker.

[Adrian walks out]

Trent (calling after him): Wait, Adrian, don't go!

That's the opening scene. Most of the rest is told in flashback, then it suddenly jumps to the present, with Belew debuting his new project FLUX while NIN plays to half-empty theaters. It ends with Trent celebrating his birthday alone, blowing out the candles of his cake. CUT TO BLACK.

New NIN song plays over the credits.

that made me look up old Custos posts

hahah

Lucky it wasn't Vanilla Ice.

tracklist:
1) "The Eater of Dreams"
2) "Copy of A"
3) "Came Back Haunted"
4) "Find My Way"
5) "All Time Low"
6) "Disappointed"
7) "Everything"
8) "Satellite"
9) "Various Methods of Escape"
10) "Running"
11) "I Would for You"
12) "In Two"
13) "While I'm Still Here"
14) "Black Noise"

looks ripe for pre-covers imo

New album features Lindsey Buckingham!!!!

tied to a rack screaming in the background, right?

no?

looks ripe for pre-covers imo

*in Marvin the Martian voice* "I do believe that you are right." Hold on here.

Okay, start claiming:

ILX Pre-Covers NIN's Hesitation Marks (deadline July 31)

I really hope this is better than that How To Destroy Angels record.

This thread is bonkers, threatening to make me bust out laughing in bed, which would suck because its late and my wife is sleeping

Lol you guys

Yeah the single is whatever

Last NIN album I could hang with was YZ

Has anything else leaked?

Stuff, things, NYT Magazine piece

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/07/28/arts/28NINE1_SPAN/28NINE1-articleLarge.jpg

I can't decide whether or not I'm excited for this album.

That interview is kind of a "this thing could go either way" situation

Lindsay Buckingham is on this! I'll be surprised if this album isn't at least good; it might well be great.

Hope he comes back to SF because I'm not doing Outside Lands to see them.

If nothing else I wanna finally see 'em live

I saw them on the Downward Spiral tour but I was so high I don't remember much about it

Very much enjoying the audio of the comeback show (there's also video):

http://reflectinginthechrome.com/shows/2013/20130726.html

and still so damn long

Satellite is definitely my fave now.

I prefer his dispassionate, sinisterly ambiguous lyrics/vox to his wobbly voiced "something inside of me" ones.

Good new interview

http://www.thefader.com/2013/09/24/interview-trent-reznor/

Satellite is such a jam

So this is great. Didn't see that coming.

It is good but tbh I could put this on shuffle with all his post Fragile stuff and it would all blend together. I was hoping for a bit of a new direction.

It's not like a massive volte face or anything, put this is definitely cleaner and poppier than anything since PHM really.

This is a Trent Reznor song

Haha, great.

yeah it's pretty spot on

If Reznor is really concerned about becoming a nostalgia act, going out on a summer coheadlining tour with Soundgarden is nagl.

I mean... he had an out to stop doing NIN and playing old NIN hits nightly, but he went back to it. Touring with other bands who were big in the 90s doesn't make that much of a difference imo.

By all accounts the last NIN tour was awesome and inventive and successful. So why does he need to lazily hitch his wagon to Soundgarden for an outdoor shed tour? This is like the Psychedelic Furs hitting the road with the English Beat.

last Soundgarden reunion tour was a+ tbh. I had all but given up on them. new album kinda blows but i would see them live again happily

plus i mean, NIN toured with Jane's last time or the time before, 90's is kinda how they roll

i see no problem here

Huh, yeah, I guess. Soundgarden was good last I saw them, had no idea NIN toured with Jane's Addiction.

They should start repackaging past Lolla tours by date. Like, this summer, the complete reunited 1991 Lollapalooza line-up, back for one show!

they toured with QOTSA in Australia last month

I was kinda hoping they would keep them on the tour.

They should start repackaging past Lolla tours by date. Like, this summer, the complete reunited 1991 Lollapalooza line-up, back for one show!

Haha genius! 'And this is an exact replica of the merch table of that tour"

i won't lie, I'd probably go to that show :/

I would definitely go to that, especially if (as happened the day I went) Siouxsie didn't perform and everybody else's set got 10-15 minutes longer.

i really dig that last soundgarden record!

I've gone off this, apart from the singles and Satellite. Very well put together, but actually kind of toothless. And I sort of feel his lyrics should've matured a bit by now.

"Satellite" is definitely the winner for me as an individual song. Still Prince-damaged after all this time (a compliment).

Hahaha was gonna say.

Huh, yeah, I guess. Soundgarden was good last I saw them, had no idea NIN toured with Jane's Addiction.

They should start repackaging past Lolla tours by date. Like, this summer, the complete reunited 1991 Lollapalooza line-up, back for one show!
--Josh in Chicago

I've actually thought about this. Pretty sure the only person you couldn't convince to go along would be Rollins

I'm still annoyed that apparently the kneejerk reactions to "Everything" scared them off releasing it as a single, love that song, think it woulda sounded great on the radio

Yeah actually everything is good too. Took me a few listens to come round to it though.

I wish they'd made a video for it with Trent frolicking in a meadow, maybe having a go on a trampoline.

Pretty sure the only person you couldn't convince to go along would be Rollins

Nah, Siouxsie/Banshees ain't going to happen again. (Siouxsie solo, sure.)

the best nin record bc it's so fonky

and in a discog full of incredible production, somehow their best-sounding record, every track like sitting in the center of a slow motion three-dimensional swirl of detail

revisit this record, it is way more dope than you remember!

Might just do that. Satellite has remained in rotation ever since due to aforementioned funkiness

Ok Brad, I'm doing it. I remember thinking of it as their modular synth album, but looking at the credits I'm curious to hear Pino on bass and Lindsay Buckingham & Adrian Belew on guitar.

Brad, I love it when you bump old ILM threads and describe things so enthusiastically it gets me to dig them out again

yeah I've always liked this one. wanna fuckin ~move~ to it right now.

it's just yet another solid post-fragile nin album to me idk, plenty to like but not much to love. do appreciate the funk though

2000s NIN > 1990s NIN all day every day (even Year Zero). This feels like a close #2 for me behind The Slip, but I'll listen to it again happily.

It's definitely a pretty funky album, maybe his funkiest since the first one? I (er) hesitate to call it his best because he's never really put out a bad record.

The funny thing about Pino and Belew is that the former's fretless playing often sounds like a bass synth anyway, and a latter's guitar playing often sounds like a bunch of weird noise, so they are both perfect fits for projects like this.

Yeah, it's hard to pick out anyone actually playing anything (in a way that couldn't also be a synth or programmed part). But so far "All Time Low" sounds great and I didn't remember it at all.

'Everything' is a cute pop-punk song

'Satellite' is a good Neptunes beat, and I've always loved falsetto Trent.

Satellite is my favourite too from memory. I wish he'd make a whole album of falsetto electro disco numbers which are funky yet sinister.

Listening to Satellite now. What a sick beat!

i love this version of "sanctified" from the pino era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBiYFoHsOg

Now I'm going to have to go back to With Teeth, which I remember as an enjoyable Trent-does-DFA album (with my favorite session playing by Dave Grohl).

'Running' is sick btw, sounds like he was listening to Konono no 1.

Always loved Sanctified. Secretly the best track on PHM?

I didn't know Pino performed live with them, that rules.

Incredible version. Backing singers are off the charts.

Satellite is such a great song.