{"id":6178,"date":"2025-06-06T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:57:11","slug":"garbage-one-of-rocks-most-forward-thinking-bands-putting-their-best-foot-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6178","title":{"rendered":"Garbage \u2014 One Of Rock\u2019s Most Forward-Thinking Bands, Putting Their Best Foot Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

As one of rock\u2019s most forward-thinking bands, it\u2019s entirely fitting that Garbage\u2014totemic vocalist Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig\u2014haven\u2019t looked back since they reunited in 2011. Arriving over two and a half decades since their era-defining self-titled debut, 2021\u2019s thrilling No Gods No Masters was the sound of a band in the midst of a late-career purple patch.<\/p>\n

They keep the momentum rolling on this eighth album. Where No Gods No Masters surveyed the wreckage of a world mired in chaos, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light is an album determined to muster hope and optimism. That\u2019s not to say it still doesn\u2019t go hard at certain points.<\/p>\n

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Opener \u201cThere\u2019s No Future in Optimism\u201d sounds like New Order-gone-glam, \u201cChinese Fire Horse\u201d is an amped-up, barbed-wire reworking of Cameo-style future-funk and there\u2019s a curled-lip swagger to cascading electro-rock anthem \u201cR U Happy Now.\u201d These are songs that erupt with some of Garbage\u2019s brightest hooks yet, an airy pop euphoria elevating the synth grooves of \u201cSisyphus\u201d and \u201cRadical\u201d\u2019s dreamy soundscapes.<\/p>\n

Coming together as Manson recovered from a second hip operation, with her three bandmates writing music and sending her demos, it\u2019s a record that finds the singer in defiantly uplifting form and a reminder of what a strange and brilliant band Garbage is.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re a group who can put together a record by working separately but still evoke the communal jubilance of a band in a room, who can craft seething anthems but summon rallying encouragement. Garbage always sound like they\u2019re already leaning into their next move. Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is the vital sound of the four-piece putting their best foot forward.<\/p>\n

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As one of rock\u2019s most forward-thinking bands, it\u2019s entirely fitting that Garbage\u2014totemic vocalist Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig\u2014haven\u2019t looked back since they reunited in 2011. Arriving over two and a half decades since their era-defining self-titled debut, 2021\u2019s thrilling No Gods No Masters was the sound of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists-lounge","category-new-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}