NIN - Hesitation Marks

[Captain]

Reznor's still awesome. New album is definitely no Pretty Hate Machine but it's always a treat to have more NIN. I'd say it's on par with Year Zero.

[Don Carlos]

obsidian you are a lucky, lucky man!

[MKJ]

what's luck got to do with anything?

[Don Carlos]

It's an expression - not to be taken literally x

[Dark Metal]

Yeah I'm sure this show was alright and stuff, but no doubt it was no NIN/Bowie show.

But it looks pretty good. I guess.

[fKd]

Just got my ticket for the Wellington show. Both NIN and QOTSA! This oils my gears!!

[Don Carlos]

Nice!

I got NIN tickets for May

[MKJ]

saw QOTSA the other night. it was underwhelming.

[Deathshroud]

Saw QOTSA last month, enjoyed the jam sessions, the rest was a bit drab.

[plained]

Copy of A is pretty cool. The hemiola really makes it (that's the synth pattern that makes it feel like the timing is being thrown off). I love how for the intro, the length of notes in the synth part is elongated and the higher frequencies are brought out, and as it transitions to the verse, even though the synth part (hemiola) doesn't change, the length of notes shortens and the frequencies die down, giving it a duller sound. This is how to interject real musicality in something as plain as a sine wave. Even if you don't know a lot of facts about music or music theory, your brain knows what's going on, and this is what makes the track listenable. Very cool and very smart.

Also All Time Low. The guitar part in the verse is really cool, and the whole thing has this dark funk to it that I like. Chorus chords are cool, and the reverb-laden lead guitar in it creates a cool mood. The chorus almost feels like really dark Peter Gabriel. edit: Forgot to mention the extremely NES Final Fantasy-esque outro. One of the coolest moments on the album, if not quite NIN-ish.

Running sounds like Trent is channeling Thom Yorke, either Atoms For Peace or The Eraser. The Very rhythm-driven, and harmonically sparse, but not hard-hitting. Not a favorite track, for me, but one worth mentioning because it feels so Thom-influenced. At least to my ear.

Not sure why they separated track 1 from Copy of A. Not sure why they separated the final track from While I'm Still Here. I think the last track is one of the cooler moments on the album and should've been showcased in While I'm Still Here.

Not a bad album, but disappointingly, I'm not sure any tracks on it are great. But what else is new? There hasn't been a fully-great NIN album since Downward Spiral, in my opinion.

i like the way you think ey