Definitely their best and most polished

Review Score: (10/10)
I definitely think this is Garbage's best album. This album is great from start to finish. It is more polished than their self titled debut and sounds fuller. At the same time, this is probably a result of production which maybe why I like this album better than the others.

However, the real standout work of this album is the lyrical quality. Songs like "Medication" and "Temptation Waits" are great lyrical songs while songs like "Special" and "I Think I'm Paranoid" are great to sing a long to. "Special" is perhaps the best song on the CD because it has it all.

So are there any negatives. Well perhaps a negative aspect is that it doesn't feel like a band but a pop band. I also find that the songs are all very similar in sound. Of course, there is a fine line of how diverse an album can be and part of my complaint about the more recent Beautiful Garbage is that it is not cohesive enough. This album is cohesive and I hardly feel the need to skip a track anywhere.

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