Overview
- The band’s eighth studio album was released May 30, 2025 through Infectious Music/BMG after a four-year break following 2021’s No Gods No Masters.
- Shirley Manson aggravated a longstanding hip injury in August 2024, cutting short Garbage’s world tour and prompting a studio return with Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker.
- Let All That We Imagine Be the Light blends buzz-saw guitars, dense synthesizers and cinematic arrangements to flip cynicism into empowerment.
- Tracks like “Chinese Fire Horse” and “Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty” deliver unfiltered responses to misogyny and intolerance through defiant lyrics.
- Critics from NME and the Associated Press praise the album’s bold sonic evolution and message of hope in turbulent times.