As Broken turns 30, Darran Anderson revisits a blazing and uncompromising record that would take Nine Inch Nails to new heights, as well as depths that Trent Reznor almost did not escape
One of the most interesting and hazardous parts of childhood is the uncertain boundary between fear and fascination. There comes a time when the fears expressed in folklore, religion, fairy tales, even horror movies, safely locked within storytelling formulas and morality lessons, gives way to something much darker – a realisation that there are things that happen in the adult world, just across the threshold, that defy understanding and containment. There are things out there that scare even the adults. And these things possess their own gravitational pull.
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