(Great timing, since the 20th anniversary re-release of Beautiful Garbage is due out later this year!) No Gods No Masters is similarly diverse and sonically pleasant, but it’s also similarly aggressive and provocative. Indeed, drummer Butch Vig himself has called this album the “mutant cousin” of Beautiful Garbage. Many of the songs harken back to the sound of their earlier albums – especially Garbage and Beautiful Garbage. No Gods No Masters is at once comfortingly familiar and boldly surprising. But with No Gods No Masters, Garbage somehow feels even more inspired, energized, and playful than they have in a long time.
As the band released three subsequent albums, a hits compilation, and rereleases of the first two records, their unique style always held strong. I’ll never forget the magic of those first three albums: Garbage, Version 2.0, and Beautiful Garbage. They were the first band I got into after deciding to forge my own musical identity and leave behind the country music on which my parents had raised me.
My love of Garbage goes back nearly 20 years.
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The three singles did not disappoint, and now with the full album available everywhere, I can gladly say that this album truly is as amazing as I’d hoped it would be. After teasing the project for a few years, and suggesting that it would be “cinematic” and “poppier” than usual, I could tell that album #7 would be a special one. I had high hopes when Garbage officially announced their new album, No Gods No Masters, in March this year.
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