★★★★★
It's been a long time between albums for Garbage; Not Your Kind Of People, which was released in May, is their first release since 2005's Bleed Like Me. 'Automatic Systematic Habit' is the opening track and rightly so. It has a killer instrumental intro before Shirley Manson's vocals start, sounding raw and rocking. The synth coupled with a driving bass line gives this track a lot of energy and I can already imagine myself dancing to this when they play Soundwave next year...
- www.theaureview.com
2012-09-13
★★★★★
Summary: A nostalgia trip that finds the band not so much returning to their roots, but praising them. This is fine for those familiar with Garbage, but it does lead to relevancy issues arising as well. 2 of 2 thought this review was well written Much like The Cranberries releasing Roses earlier this year, Garbage is another notable 90's alternative rock band fronted by a female, that has released a comeback album from a hiatus that lasted a majority of the 2000's...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
Remember the 90s? Remember the Sega v. Nintendo console war, Hal Hartley movies and when The Simpsons was still the most flawless, peerless show on TV? Remember Garbage's self-titled debut album and the "It's by the guy who produced Nevermind" chatter that surrounded it? No doubt that description garnered the fledgling act a fair amount of interest (and record sales), but it was, in fact, rather a case of an album being mis-sold...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-06-04
★★★★★
In the wake of an "indefinite hiatus" that led some to believe they would never play together again, Garbage makes a dramatic return with their fifth studio effort, Not Your Kind of People. As the band's first original release in seven years and perhaps their most anticipated album, Not Your Kind of People maintains Garbage's distinctive electric rock sound, catchy invigorating riffs and musical complexity while showcasing a renewed energy not seen in years...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2012-05-28
★★★★★
Initially, Garbage's calling card was drummer Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana's Nevermind, among other grunge-era classics. In spite of that bankable association, the band wisely held grunge at arm's length. After all, grunge was obsessed with the admittedly slippery ethic of authenticity. Garbage, by grunge's standards, had none. Here was a group blatantly manufactured by Vig and guitarist Duke Erikson, journeymen who first played together professionally in 1975...
- www.avclub.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
For a band that's been around for almost two decades, Garbage has released surprisingly few studio albums. Their fifth, "Not Your Kind of People," comes on the heels of a seven-year hiatus, which makes it all the more anticipated. Fans who have missed Shirley Manson's powerful vocals and scenic presence will revel in this blast-from-the-past album, released on their own label for the first time...
- www.boston.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
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 glories. Garbage's new album plods along with an overproduced pompousness that falls somewhere between boring and annoying. Opener 'Automatic Systematic Habit' is a prime example of an overworked song battered with too much studio time...
- www.clashmusic.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
Shirley Manson has said that one of the reasons Garbage reunited is that no one has stepped into the unique niche they filled in the late '90s. It's not an entirely accurate assessment of the current state of pop music (the band's influence is all over everything from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' It's Blitz...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
The prospect of Shirley Manson singing "This Little Light of Mine" certainly has wicked potential. The Garbage frontwoman folds that child's hymn into the final minutes of "Beloved Freak," the last song on Not Your Kind of People, the band's fifth album and first in seven years. Rising out of post-Lilith Fair '90s alt-rock, the Scottish singer/songwriter brought an outlandish sensibility to that decade's girl power movement, building on the edgier breakthroughs on Liz Phair and PJ Harvey...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2012-05-24
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