Not Your Kind of People
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Check out our album review of Artist's Not Your Kind of People on Rolling Stone.com.
Despite all appearances to the contrary, Garbage spent only eight years on an indefinite hiatus -- it only seemed like they spent over a decade wandering in the pop hinterlands.
Garbage have never been a band of much substance but at their peak they produced some brilliantly damaged pop music. Not Your Kind of People contents itself with refining an established musical palette but the frisson of their best work is in short supply. Whilst it would be unreasonable to expect Shirley Manson to resurrect her supervixen persona in 2012, it would have probably been more engaging than the stream of earnest platitudes that saturate the album.
In the drought since their last full-length album Bleed Like Me was released in 2005, Garbage has left fans reeling from quite a seven-year itch.
Frontwoman Shirley Manson says that music icon David Bowie was a huge influence on this album, but the only resemblance that seems to be found here is that both struggle to recreate their former glori
<p>Garbage's first album in seven years is pretty familiar stuff, writes <strong>Ally Carnwath</strong></p>
Garbage are back after a five-year hiatus, and if they sometimes sound like they're trying too hard, a lot of it really works, writes <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>
Shirley Manson and co. have plenty to shout about after seven years away. CD review by Lisa-Marie Ferla