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Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks – album stream

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Be among the first to hear Trent Reznor's new album, and let us know what you make of it


So here it is, the eighth album from Nine Inch Nails, and the first since 2008's The Slip. There are collaborators you would expect – Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder are on hand – and some you wouldn't: who'd have expected Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac to crop up on a Nine Inch Nails album, let alone the king of the fretless bass session players, Pino Palladino?

This is a new Trent Reznor, free of what he told the Guardian was "an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me … And I'm happy that I don't feel that way any more. I've learned to recognise, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways, the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit. This record was written as the other side of that journey. The despair and loneliness and rage and isolation and the not-fitting-in aspect that still is in me, but I can express that in a way that feels more appropriate to who I am now. And often that rage is quieter."

So listen in, and tell us what you think in the comments below.

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