• Record Label: BMG
  • Release Date: May 30, 2025
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. 100
    We 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.
  2. Jun 12, 2025
    90
    A stellar example of an artist pushing their collective boundaries while retaining full control over their artistic identity.
  3. Jun 11, 2025
    80
    This 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.
  4. May 30, 2025
    80
    Let All That We Imagine Be the Light is another fantastic 2020s offering from this masterful quartet, further solidifying their place as alt-rock royalty.
  5. May 30, 2025
    80
    It’s a mature, profoundly human album, weathered but unbroken, scarred yet still yearning.
  6. 80
    Here is your soundtrack to that world, perhaps unsurprisingly it rocks righteously.
  7. May 27, 2025
    80
    We get bouquets as well as barbed-wire. [Jul 2025, p.84]
  8. Uncut
    May 27, 2025
    80
    Even 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]
  9. Jun 4, 2025
    70
    The 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.
  10. Classic Rock Magazine
    May 27, 2025
    70
    One 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]
  11. Jun 5, 2025
    64
    Their 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.
  12. May 30, 2025
    60
    While 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.
  13. Record Collector
    May 27, 2025
    60
    These 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]

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