2018 Music Awards - BEST ALBUM - Hesitation Marks - Nine Inch Nails

BEST ALBUM
Hesitation Marks - Nine Inch Nails

LastFM lets you click a little heart to indicate a “loved” song. Since I first listened to this album in May (yeah I as a few years late to the party) every song on it has received a little heart. When I was into NIN in the 1990s Trent Reznor was the “King of Angst”. In the intervening years he’s kicked a cocaine and alcohol habit, beefed up, gotten married and had 4 kids. These days the music still has a dark streak, but it’s less destructive. Seeing as I too have grown up in these intervening years, newer NIN still has the same relevance to me as the older stuff did in my teens. This years Bad Witch LP was great, but for me HM has just the right sounds and lyrics for me to just to be able to listen to it over and over and over.

2018 Music Awards - BEST SONG - Enough - SONOIO

Alessandro Cortini wears many hats. In the live lineup of Nine Inch Nails he might be playing keyboards and synths, or he could be on bass or guitar. He’s in another band called Modwheelmood and releases solo ambient synth material under the name Blindoldfreak as well as his actual name. And he had a now defunct solo synthpop project called SONOIO (“it’s me”).

 

I remember first hearing this song (and seeing the video) just after my sinus operation in June, and I was immediately hooked. This is so goddamn catchy. Then a bit later I read the lyrics and they were also heavily relatable. I still squee a little bit and sing along loudly whenever it comes on when I’m randomly playing stuff.

 

"SONOIO -Enough" (Watch on YouTube)