With the reemergence of dance music, it seems fitting that the return of Garbage's electro-dipped rock would follow closely. Despite the seven year gap between albums, Shirley Manson and crew return largely as you remember them best; which is to say a return to the straight-forward rock sound that made their first two albums work so well. The shuttering jitter of synth and guitars pulsing around Manson's driven vocals on "Big Bright World" and dance floor ready beat and bleep-blipping synth churning around a hammering riff on "I Hate Love" pull you right back to Garbage's heyday.
The train-whistle harmonica and grumbling bass stomping around grubby "Control" find a delightfully shadowy vocal from Manson, though the chopped up, underwater effects in the song's midsection feel like an unnecessary garnish. Manson's waifish coos through the guitar and drum ravaged "Felt" feel wasted, but it is a rare misstep on the well-produced effort, with her menacing whisper on "Sugar" weaving magic in the midnight ballad. The mechanical churn and jabbing riffs of "Battle In Me" and whirring guitar and propulsive drums of "Man On A Wire" still fit Manson's rocker wail well. The album sounds like a time capsule they buried 'in case of emergency' in the nineties, so your mileage might depend largely on your want for nostalgia, but the return to what they did best is definitely welcome.
Seek - "Control", "I Hate Love", "Sugar"
For fans of - early Garbage
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