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8.0
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The Guardian
Fewer electronics, more fuzzy guitars and production aimed at the Gaga generation
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8.0
41250
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Welcome back to the 1990s – weren’t they great?
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8.0
41323
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
This album is big, bold, shiny pop music, but crafted with so many jagged edges it could cut itself
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8.0
41324
8.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Rumours of Garbage’s demise have been much exaggerated, and this first new material in seven years makes a fist of blending the spiky and snuggly sides of the band
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8.0
41678
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Rave Magazine
This album not only wipes the floor with its lacklustre predecessor (2005’s Bleed Like Me), it’s actually Garbage’s best work since their classic debut
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7.0
41683
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The first new Garbage album in seven years is like a film sequel where familiar characters haven't changed much – especially Manson, who still cherishes the wary alertness of adolescence
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7.0
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Loud And Quiet
If this album is to be a swansong, at least Garbage have done it once more with feeling
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7.0
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7.0 |
FasterLouder
Feels like a natural progression from Bleed Like Me rather than a “comeback album”
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7.0
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7.0 |
AU Review
An album that will please the band’s loyal fanbase but that also has something for the casual listener. It’s nothing new, but it’s definitely Garbage
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7.0
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7.0 |
Under The Radar
Nostalgia works in Garbage's favor, as much of the album brings listeners back to the eponymous debut that set the band on track to sell 17 million records worldwide
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
It sounds like the band has rediscovered its harmony amongst the distortion of crunchy guitars
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7.0
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7.0 |
BBC
It might be business as usual compositionally, and public demand for another Garbage album was questionable; but this set will stir interest in both fans and casual listeners alike
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6.4
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6.4 |
Pitchfork
The times have changed but Garbage haven't, and now, for better and for worse, they've at last become alternative to everything
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
The songs here may be a bit sharper than those on 2005's Bleed Like Me, but there's no indication that the band has evolved much
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6.0
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6.0 |
State
Not Your Kind of People isn’t exactly a leap forward for the band but it is far from a backward step into oblivion either. It’s a Garbage album, through and through
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
The new record has immense strengths: the folk song turned electro-metal of Control; the reggae inflections of Blood for Poppies; the post-punk riffing of Man on a Wire; the sweetly-sour sexiness of Sugar
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6.0
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6.0 |
Q
Alt-rock's queen of neuroses is back, but this refuse feels routine. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Scotsman
A pretty seamless return to form – that form being the reanimation of their efficient but formulaic Frankensteinian creation, with its checklist of regulation Garbage elements
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
They haven't really been missed, yet it's good to ave them back. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
They sound the same, from Shirley Manson's robot-grrrl insouciance to the grunge-pop guitar-churn and foot-stompy lyrics, only rather less vital
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
It's all slick and tuneful but, bar the shoegaze-indebted Felt, feels like business as usual
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
The combination of Manson’s unmistakable vocals - strident, sexy, arresting - with poppy guitar licks hasn't dated in the slightest
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5.8
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5.8 |
A.V. Club
Vig’s hyper-processed production borders on sensory overload
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5.0
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5.0 |
PopMatters
The album, however, will most likely appease die-hard Garbage fans who swoon over Manson’s undeniably charismatic style
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5.0
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No Ripcord
It's like any rekindling of an old relationship; it may feel comfortable, familiar, even fun now, but it'll only be a matter of time before every bad habit that you fell out over in the first place becomes impossible to ignore again
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5.0
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5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The album introduces a whole bucket load of new (over) production techniques that mean there's no real flow to it
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
This is just another solid disc from solid musicians, no more, no less
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5.0
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5.0 |
Uncut
Manson can still whip up an appealingly vengeful turn of phrase, but they retain a tendency to sound stiff. Print edition only
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4.6
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Paste Magazine
The sad fact that in 2012, Garbage have relinquished their role as provocateurs
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4.0
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4.0 |
Art Rocker
There may not be any classics here to rival previous outings, but what are back catalogues for anyway? Welcome back, yous-guys
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Skinny
Sonically it’s robust enough but Garbage never once deign to leave their comfort zone throughout the duration
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3.0
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NME
Pedestrian, anodyne and utterly unremarkable
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3.0
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3.0 |
Clash
Plods along with an overproduced pompousness that falls somewhere between boring and annoying
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