“Shirley Manson is an avenger. Since Garbage emerged in 1995, their albums have mixed aggressive digital rock with the lashings Manson gives to liars, conformists and other villains. She's a red-haired sister of vampire-slaying Buffy Summers, another Nineties heroine. The first new Garbage album in seven years is like a film sequel where familiar characters […]”
“For their first release in seven years, Garbage faced a conundrum similar to that of many artists who found success in the alt-rock 1990s: Do you update your approach to conform to a more contemporary sound, or do you keep partying like it's 1998?”
