Seventh album from multimillion selling Scottish- American quartet;
As album opening lines go, "The men who rule the world have made a fucking mess” is quite the statement of intent from a band who, these days, exist intermittently.
Their line-up remains unchanged - keeping things in the family, singer Shirley Manson's husband Billy Bush co-produces - but on a record completed in Palm Springs the night before California went into lockdown, they've added anger to their traditional wall of ferocious sleekness built of sizzling guitars and unyielding electronica.
The delightfully sweary Manson
takes on Trump, misogyny, climate change and personal retribution against a
backdrop which ranges from wind tunnel on Godhead and Wolves, to something more
woozily trip-hop on This City Will Kill You and, on Waiting For God - the
closest Garbage have come to a power ballad - the Black Lives Matter movement.
Intermittent they may be, but never uncommitted.
(Deluxe
edition has a bonus disc)
John
Aizlewood [MOJO]
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