Nine Inch Nails Give Each Format Of New Album 'Hesitation Marks' Its Own Unique Artwork

Each version of Nine Inch Nails’ latest album ‘Hesitation Marks’ - digital download, CD, deluxe CD, and vinyl - has been given its own album artwork, designed by Russell Mills.

‘Hesitation Marks’ is the band’s first new record for five years, and hits shelves on September 3. The band’s eighth album, it’s now been given the unique trait of having four individual artworks for each of its four formats - you can check them out on the band’s website here.

Speaking of the artworks, Mills has commented:

“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.”

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​Nine Inch Nails UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows

Wed August 21st 2013 - BELFAST Customs House Square

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