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After four years of quit, Garbage has returned, but their new album may be too much for some listeners.
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Other new albums this week include a Willie Nelson-helmed tsunami-relief album, yet another best of Billie Holiday album, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s latest collaboration with the Silk Road Ensemble.
Garbage, “Bleed Like Me”
Forget the revivalists. The disjointed members of Garbage created and lived in the obscurity of an era that bands like The Killers and Bloc Party cheerfully recreate. Now, after a four-year, drama-filled absence that included one breakup, Garbage returns with the often repetitious but fully charged “Bleed Like Me.”
The troupe of former Blue Oyster Cult members — save glamazon frontwoman Shirley Manson — has been infused with the edginess of a Ginsu knife, lavishly exposing old wounds and new ones with potent guitars riffs and brawny drums. “You should see my scars,” former self-mutilator Manson whispers on the album’s paramount title track.
Geffen
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At the halfway point, this record suddenly slashes and gnaws without much prose or purpose. The second half of “Bleed Like Me” is too dizzy to be understood. The electro-rockers’ torrential stabbing on “Why Don’t You Come Over” slices the cranium enough to force a listener run for cover.
Those technical difficulties don’t dampen tracks like the fabulously moody “Metal Heart” and the hip-thrusting “Bad Boyfriend,” which features Dave Grohl on drums. Neither completely synth-pop nor all glam rock, Garbage remain ambiguous.
Despite being together for nearly a decade, Manson and her men remain fresher than most of their neighboring 1990s acts such as that other one-girl-with-multiple-boys group No Doubt, as well as that other Manson, Marilyn.
Listeners ready to taste Garbage’s latest course should treat “Bleed Like Me” like a bloody warm shepherd’s pie. Eat a slice, not the whole thing.
— Derrik J. Lang
After four years of quit, Garbage has returned, but their new album may be too much for some listeners.
advertisement
Other new albums this week include a Willie Nelson-helmed tsunami-relief album, yet another best of Billie Holiday album, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s latest collaboration with the Silk Road Ensemble.
Garbage, “Bleed Like Me”
Forget the revivalists. The disjointed members of Garbage created and lived in the obscurity of an era that bands like The Killers and Bloc Party cheerfully recreate. Now, after a four-year, drama-filled absence that included one breakup, Garbage returns with the often repetitious but fully charged “Bleed Like Me.”
The troupe of former Blue Oyster Cult members — save glamazon frontwoman Shirley Manson — has been infused with the edginess of a Ginsu knife, lavishly exposing old wounds and new ones with potent guitars riffs and brawny drums. “You should see my scars,” former self-mutilator Manson whispers on the album’s paramount title track.
Geffen
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At the halfway point, this record suddenly slashes and gnaws without much prose or purpose. The second half of “Bleed Like Me” is too dizzy to be understood. The electro-rockers’ torrential stabbing on “Why Don’t You Come Over” slices the cranium enough to force a listener run for cover.
Those technical difficulties don’t dampen tracks like the fabulously moody “Metal Heart” and the hip-thrusting “Bad Boyfriend,” which features Dave Grohl on drums. Neither completely synth-pop nor all glam rock, Garbage remain ambiguous.
Despite being together for nearly a decade, Manson and her men remain fresher than most of their neighboring 1990s acts such as that other one-girl-with-multiple-boys group No Doubt, as well as that other Manson, Marilyn.
Listeners ready to taste Garbage’s latest course should treat “Bleed Like Me” like a bloody warm shepherd’s pie. Eat a slice, not the whole thing.
— Derrik J. Lang