Ally Carnwath 

Garbage: Not Your Kind of People – review

Garbage's first album in seven years is pretty familiar stuff, writes Ally Carnwath
  
  


Singer Shirley Manson has been talking up the band's outsider status but it's always existed more in their minds than anyone else's. Their seven-year absence followed a split from Warner Bros whom they decried as too sales-focused, yet their self-released comeback is hardly wild experimentation. Electro-charged grunge and ambient pop are their default settings and there's plenty of both here: Big Bright World's crunchy hooks make a convincing bid for radio ubiquity, Sugar finds Manson cosying up to glowering synths. It's all slick and tuneful but, bar the shoegaze-indebted Felt, feels like business as usual.

 

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