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May 28, 2025We are now seeing the band like never before. Not only are they showcasing some of their most intriguing and impactful material, but they’re also paving the way into a hopeful new chapter.
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Jun 12, 2025A stellar example of an artist pushing their collective boundaries while retaining full control over their artistic identity.
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Jun 11, 2025This album is driven by a message above all, and there are some truly exquisite moments in which music and lyrics merge and soar even in the face of social collapse.
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May 30, 2025Let All That We Imagine Be the Light is another fantastic 2020s offering from this masterful quartet, further solidifying their place as alt-rock royalty.
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May 30, 2025It’s a mature, profoundly human album, weathered but unbroken, scarred yet still yearning.
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May 28, 2025Here is your soundtrack to that world, perhaps unsurprisingly it rocks righteously.
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May 27, 2025We get bouquets as well as barbed-wire. [Jul 2025, p.84]
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UncutMay 27, 2025Even when the sonic mood broods on "Radical", the optimistic sentiments (quoted in the album title) reflect a creative force in rude force. [Jul 2025, p.27]
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Jun 4, 2025The album is not necessarily vintage Garbage, but it confirms the band still have their best qualities intact – no-nonsense music and a vocalist on great form.
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Classic Rock MagazineMay 27, 2025One of the band's most reflective releases (here she works toward acceptance of the fragility of her body while also reasserting its many strengths) but also one of their most defiant. [Jul 2025, p.78]
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Jun 5, 2025Their career arc since 2001’s Beautiful Garbage suggests that wobbly songwriting is as much a tic as their masterful studio expertise. The cult still thrives, and we’ll happily settle for Let All We Imagine Be the Light—until the next album.
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May 30, 2025While not quite the box of delights Garbage shook at us last time, there’s persistent allure in the mating of cavernous soundscapes with Shirley’s penetratingly icy vocals.
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Record CollectorMay 27, 2025These 10 tracks will undoubtedly please longterm fans, even if there's little here that doesn't revisit already well-trodden ground. [Jun 2025, p.103]