Garbage is back. And the band’s sound is the same—but different. Not Your Kind Of People (StunVolume) is the quartet’s first album since 2005, and the distance has got Garbage’s creative juices flowing in exciting ways. First single “Blood For Poppies” has the same driving drums, ripping guitars and biting lyrics as earlier LPs but a poppier hook, while “Battle In Me” is much angrier and, well, Garbage-ier. Not Your Kind Of People is a great fusion of the old and the new—and after seven years of waiting, we are pretty psyched the band is back. The quartet will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com for two weeks, but for those of you who need more Garbage, read our 20 Questions feature with Shirley Manson and Butch Vig.
Marker: My absolute favorite author. Except for Vonnegut, maybe. Or Wodehouse or A.C. Doyle. Anyway, Jame Thurber chose to use very few words, and every word that he chose to use is completely perfect. Thurber is Shakespeare to me. Read the short story “The Night The Bed Fell” and tell me I’m wrong. You can’t. Also, “The Night The Ghost Got In”—even better. Economy with words is good. Also, as some kind of weird bonus, he drew the best cartoons ever for The New Yorker. Go figure.
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