The Way Out Is Through: Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hesitation Marks’ at 10
Nine Inch Nails’ Hesitation Marks creates an objective point for looking back with wiser eyes, showing that the way to a better life is to push through the past.
Adam Steiner
Adam Steiner writes about music, street art culture, architecture, and poetry. His books include Into the Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation of the Downward Spiral (2022), Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) in 2023. His next book is Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death (December 2023).
We Are Future Ghosts: Haunting David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ 45 Years Later
David Bowie’s Heroes expresses Berlin’s fractured psyche in 1977, caught between decadence and desolation, and mirrors his struggles to make a fresh start.