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[[Image:HMdigitalcover.jpg|thumb|Digital artwork]]
[[Image:Hesitation_Marks.jpg|thumb|iTunes Deluxe Edition artwork]]
[[Image:HMstandardjapanese.jpg|thumb|Japanese/Australian standard artwork]]
'''''Hesitation Marks''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 28]]''''') is the ninth studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It will be released on September 3, 2013 in a total of five formats: CD, Deluxe Edition CD, vinyl, digital and iTunes Deluxe Edition. The album was recorded secretly over the course of a year and came as a complete surprise to fans.
This album marks a return to the artwork of [[Russell Mills]], whose work was previously used for ''[[March Of The Pigs (halo)|March Of The Pigs]]'', ''The Downward Spiral'', ''[[Further Down The Spiral]]'' and ''[[Closure]]''. There is a different cover for each of the five editions. Reznor stated in a radio interview[http://soundcloud.com/q877/walt-talks-with-trent-reznor] that he couldn't choose between the various covers and decided to use them all. He also stated that Mills had suggested the album title.
Some of the alternate covers are used within the packaging of the other editions, i.e. the cover of the standard CD is inside the gatefold of the vinyl, etc. The cover covers of the Japanese and Australian standard CD is CDs are a variation on the cover of the US standard CD, with the painting oriented sideways and , in the case of the Japanese cover, photographed from a slightly different vantage point.
In a post on the official NIN Tumblr account[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/55697135231/each-version-of-hesitation-marks-will-have-its-own], the various artwork was elaborated on by Mills:
<blockquote>"The artworks, (30 mixed media pieces) that I eventually produced towards uses in the ''Hesitation Marks '' releases, evolved out of lengthy exchanges between myself and Trent and in response to the conceptual ideas that thread through the tracks and to the sonic territory that the album explores. I’ve tried to lock into the album’s prevailing mood and echo the album’s essence. The ideas are not communicated in a literal or easily digested form, as this would be boring for me and would insult the intelligence of a potential audience. I’ve tried to make works that obliquely allude to the essence of the subject matter, to its emotional core.
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As with my self-initiated works - the paintings, assemblages, collages and multimedia installations - personal ideas and obsessions seep into these works. The organic, the natural, prevailing over or feeding into the industrial, the man made, is a common theme in my work generally and in this instance was particularly apt for the art required.