“"Thrive/Just become/Your disease," Trent Reznor shouts on this record, across crusty electronics and irritated-guitar chatter in a song called "In Two." Reznor is an excellent advertisement for that advice, a resilient, multiplatinum icon of feral machine music and lacerating self-examination. Next year marks the 25th anniversary of Pretty Hate Machine, his debut as the founding singer-composer a”
“For the first Nine Inch Nails release since 2009, Trent Reznor has resorted to the most radical release strategy an independent-minded artist can employ in 2013: he’s re-signed to a major label. But unlike the themes of depression, madness, and addiction that defined his most enduring works, the skeletal Hesitation Marks chronicles a more existential crisis.”
“After the incredibly textured and forward-thinking the Slip in '08, Nine Inch Nails returns with a bit of a throwback on Hesitation Marks.”
