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On this EP, there are louder mixes and more distortion on every instrument, including a classic Mellotron MKIV (originally owned by John Lennon), which can be heard most noticeably on the track "Gave Up". Reznor said he wanted the album to be "an abrasive, hard-to-listen-to thing...I wanted to make a record that the first time you hear it you don't like it, but you might want to hear it again, but by the third time it's pretty cool. By the fifth time, you really like it and possibly by the tenth time you're not sick of it and now it all makes sense."
In an interview with Guitar Player Keyboard Magazine in 1994[http://www.nin-pagestheninhotline.denet/1994_Guitar_Player_April_englisharchives/articles/manager/display_article.htmphp?id=548] , Reznor elaborated on the EP's unique guitar textures:
<blockquote>"Broken, for example, had a lot of that super-thick chunk sound, and almost . Almost every guitar sound on that record was me playing through an old Zoom pedal , direct, and then going direct into Digidesign's TurboSynth [Macintosh software]Turbosynth. Then I used a couple of key ingredients to make it sound unlike any real sound in the world, and layered about four of them together. By then, it wasn'realt a guitar anymore. It' s an awesome sound."</blockquote>
In an interview with Alternative Press in 1993[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=546], Reznor discussed the writing and instrumentation: