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Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (Island)

Neil Perry, Select, March 1991

TWO YEARS ago, Trent Reznor locked himself in a studio and took a long, hard digitally-sequenced look into his soul. Pretty Hate Machine was the result — a bleak catalogue of negative emotion and small town bitterness.

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