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Garbage: Version 2.0 (Mushroom)

Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 9 May 1998

IN OUR post-Prodigy, post-Marilyn Manson times, it feels almost churlish to criticise Garbage's impeccably tailored cybergoth rocktronica. So maybe they are the Disco Tin Machine or the Stadium Sneaker Pimps, methodically fashioning bespoke pseudo-gloomo radio anthems for corporate drones with identical nose-rings and pierced foreskins. But hey — even Lollapalooza brats have to grow up eventually.

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