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'''''Hesitation Marks''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 28]]''''') is the ninth studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was 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. On August 26th, 2013, the full album was leaked on the internet, and was made available for streaming on US iTunes the following day.
==Track List==
===CD/Digital===#"[[The Eater Of Dreams]]" – 0:52
#"[[Copy Of A]]" – 5:23
#"[[Came Back Haunted (song)|Came Back Haunted]]" – 5:17
#"[[Black Noise]]" – 1:29
===Deluxe Edition CD/Digital===
The Deluxe Edition CD includes the following [[Remixes|remixes]] on a second disc:
It also comes in a 28 page hardcover ecolbook. This is the only packaging that includes lyrics and the booklet contains significantly more artwork than that of the standard CD.
===iTunes/HDtracks Deluxe EditionBonus Track===The An exclusive bonus track was available with the iTunes Deluxe Edition and HDtracks Deluxe Standard Edition includes the above remixes as tracks 15-17 plus an interview as track 18:
*"Trent Reznor In Conversation With..." – 41:58
The self-conducted interview also includes several demos from the album:
===Japanese CD===
The Japanese standard CD includes an exclusive bonus remix as track 15:*<ol start="15"><li>"Everything" ([[Autolux]] Remix) – 4:30</li></ol>
===Vinyl===
The double vinyl release splits sides between "Find My Way" and "All Time Low", "Everything" and "Satellite", and "Running" and "I Would For You". It also contains a copy of the standard album on CD, as was the case with [[How To Destroy Angels]]' ''[[Welcome Oblivion (album)|Welcome Oblivion]]''. The vinyl was reissued in 2021, this time lacking the CD.
==About==
The album was first acknowledged by [[Trent Reznor]] on May 28, 2013 in a post on [[nin.com]]:
<blockquote>"<p>I've been less than honest about what I’ve really been up to lately. For the last year I’ve been secretly working non-stop with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder on a new, full-length Nine Inch Nails record, which I am happy to say is finished and frankly fucking great. This is the real impetus and motivation behind the decision to assemble a new band and tour again. My forays into film, HTDA and other projects really stimulated me creatively and I decided to focus that energy on taking Nine Inch Nails to a new place. Here we go!"<br/p>
— Trent Reznor, 5.28.13.</blockquote>
==Inspiration and recording==
The album began as a couple of tracks that were meant to be included in a forthcoming proposed greatest hits package for [[Interscope Records]]. The sessions gave way to more songs and ended up yielding an entire album.[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=6190] At one point during the album's creation, producer Markus Dravs was brought in to add a different perspective from Reznor's long-term team of [[Atticus Ross]] and [[Alan Moulder]]. The collaboration didn't feel right, however, and was terminated.[http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6304122/trent-reznor-talks-nine-inch-nails-scoring-gone-girl-apple-project]
In an interview with ''The Guardian''[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/08/the-nine-lives-of-trent-reznor], Reznor revealed that the two songs originally written and recorded for the hits package were "Everything" and "Satellite". He also explained what inspired, in his view, a more minimal and sparse treatment of the music:
<blockquote>"What I found the most inspiring was sitting with just a drum machine in my bedroom, in my office. Not having a keyboard or a guitar and playing everything on pads. Me sitting alone with literally one piece of gear just messing around, I found it exciting. It lent to the minimal edge, because it didn't feel like it needed more."</blockquote>
The album title is a term for wounds that are sometimes made when a person is contemplating suicide by wrist cutting. Fans have speculated that this is either a reference to Reznor being not quite ready to put NIN to rest, or a reference to the fact that the album is conceptually an "upward spiral" and a reflection of the fact that Reznor did not end up killing himself when he was at his lowest point.
In interviews with ''The New York Times'' and ''SPIN'', Reznor stated that he had ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in mind as he worked on ''Hesitation Marks'':
<blockquote>"I felt very aware that it's 20 years later, and I'm still that guy. I know that guy, and I feel for him. I don't resent him, I don't miss him. But how would things feel on the other side of that now, in a much more stable life place, mentally and physically, and with a new family? The incentive has changed. It's not about, '"I'm going to kill myself if I don't get this out of my head.' " But the excavation and the architecture behind it, the motivation behind it, is similar."[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/arts/music/nine-inch-nails-is-back-onstage-with-a-vengeance.html]</blockquote>
<blockquote>"For some reason, when I started working more on ''Hesitation Marks'', I started thinking back romantically about who I was when I was writing ''The Downward Spiral''. I was looking back on who I was then and who I am now and how things have turned out, for better or worse. That was the air the new record was born in. I was looking at the other side of how I was not always honest about who I was in the '90s — and I knew I wasn't being honest — and if you sprinkle those negative feelings with some drugs and alcohol, it's usually not a recipe for success."[http://www.spin.com/featured/trent-reznor-upward-spiral-nine-inch-nails-spin-cover-september-2013/]</blockquote>
In the self-interview included with the iTunes Deluxe Edition of ''Hesitation Marks'', Reznor spoke of the intentional link that was made between the artwork of the two albums:
<blockquote>"Now in terms of making that connection more literal to ''Downward Spiral'', the choice of reaching out to [[Russell Mills]], later in the process, to actually provide the artwork was certainly a conscious trail of breadcrumbs. The choice of using the same font — we were making the connection here."[http://www.spin.com/articles/nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-in-conversation-with-hesitation-marks-stream/]</blockquote>
==Different masters==
The album was made available in three two different masters for digital download: a "standard" version, and an "Audiophile Mastered Version" and a master specific to the high resolution HDtracks service (the latter two having extended dynamic range, and not meant to be competitive in the loudness war.) An explanation was posted on the official NIN tumblr account:[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/59587808317/hesitation-marks-was-mastered-in-two-different]
<blockquote>''Hesitation Marks'' was mastered in two different ways - the standard, “loud” mastering (which is what you’ll find on the CD, on iTunes, and everywhere else), and also an alternate “audiophile” mastering, which we’re offering as a free download option for anyone who purchases the album through [[nin.com]]. For the majority of people, the standard version will be preferable and differences will be difficult to detect. Audiophiles with high-end equipment and an understanding of the mastering process might prefer the alternate version.
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.
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.
The works explore ideas of catharsis, of being into dissolution into being, both on a personal and sociological level. They allude to ideas about chaos and order. They deal with ways of suggesting presence in absence. They are a cross between the forensic and a pathology of the personal in which only fragments remain, in which minimal clues can suggest events that may have occurred. They attempt to harness the chaos of a situation, of now, of the personal trauma, of the human condition, into a form that is coherent, a form that accommodates the mess without disguising it as something else. It attempts to capture the essence of these ideas by implication and exclusion. Beneath the form lies the uncertainty and ceaseless flux of the mess, of the chaos.
An amalgam of the contextually-anchored and the process-driven, they are hopefully powerful, arresting, seductive, suggestive and resonant. I hope that they will invite multiple readings."</blockquote>
The titles and materials for the five paintings are as follows:[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/55697135231/each-version-of-hesitation-marks-will-have-its-own],[httphttps://www.russellmills.com/russell_mills/albums/art/lures-2013/]
* Digital cover: "Turn And Burn" (Plaster, earth, oils, acrylics, etching varnish, bitumen, burning, rusted linen, blood, spent matches, on wood)
A limited edition art book/multiple containing Mills' art for ''Hesitation Marks'' was released in December 2015. It was priced at $300 and the following information was given on the site set up at cargointheblood.com:
<blockquote>"Nine Inch Nails and long-time collaborator and artist Russell Mills present ''Cargo In The Blood'', a deluxe, limited edition 320-page book collecting all of the works the artist created for Nine Inch Nails’ ''Hesitation Marks'' album. Each volume also includes an original mixed media painting created by Russell Mills specifically for the project. Available exclusively on NIN.com, ''Cargo In The Blood'' is limited to 2000 copies and will be available to order 12/16/15 10am PT."</blockquote>
INCLUDES
''For more information, see [[NIN 2013-2014]]''
The album was supported by a major tour that visited festivals and arenas around the world. For the [[Tension 2013 Tour]], the touring lineup was expanded to eight members (the largest in the history of the band and the first to utilize backup singers) and the visual elements were a logical continuation of those from the [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]. The tour also included two co-headlining legs, one with [[Queens Of The Stone Age]] and one with [[Soundgarden]]. Several shows were filmed for inclusion in a DVD and Blu-ray package, though the current status of the project is unknown.
==Live==
All ''Hesitation Marks'' songs have been played live except , though "Everything", though it has been played at rehearsals for the Tension 2013 tourdidn't make its debut until 2022.
==Album Credits==
columbiarecords.com
===Deluxe Edition Remix Credits===
"Find My Way" ([[Related_bands_and_artists#Oneohtrix_Point_Never|Oneohtrix Point Never ]] Remix)
*Mixed by Daniel Lopatin + Paul Corley
*Additional Engineering by Paul Corley
==External Links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Llc4Ciu0k ''Hesitation Marks'' teaser trailer]
*[http://www.russellmills.com/art-2013/ Artwork created for ''Hesitation Marks'']
*[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/52247958645 Russell Mills on the artwork for the album]
*[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/61042678189/hesitation-marks-interior-packaging-art-details Interior artwork photographed by Rob Sheridan]
*[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/59587808317/hesitation-marks-was-mastered-in-two-different Explanation of the mastering]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb2-F86RW9E Mastering comparison video]
*[http://nincatalog.com/hesitation-marks/ ''Hesitation Marks'' at nincatalog.com]
*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnine%2520inch%2520nails%2520hesitation%2520marks%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 ''Hesitation Marks'' at Amazon]