Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

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As one of rock’s most forward-thinking band, it’s entirely fitting that Garbage—totemic vocalist Shirley Manson, multi-instrumentalists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, and drummer Butch Vig—haven’t looked back since they reunited in 2011. Arriving over two and a half decades since their era-defining self-titled debut, 2021’s thrilling <i>No Gods No Masters</i> was the sound of a band in the midst of a late-career purple patch. They keep the momentum rolling on this eighth album. Where <i>No Gods No Masters</i> surveyed the wreckage of a world mired in chao, <i>Let All That We Imagine Be the Light</i> is an album determined to muster hope and optimism. That’s not to say it still doesn’t go hard at certain point. Opener “There’s No Future in Optimism” sounds like New Order-gone-glam, “Chinese Fire Horse” is an amped-up, barbed-wire reworking of Cameo-style future-funk and there’s a curled-lip swagger to cascading electro-rock anthem “R U Happy Now.” These are songs that erupt with some of Garbage’s brightest hooks yet, an airy pop euphoria elevating the synth grooves of “Sisyphus” and “Radical”’s dreamy soundscape. .

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