Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
by Garbage
  • Record Label: BMG
  • Release Date: May 30, 2025
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    May 28, 2025
    100
    We are now seeing the band like never before. Not only are they showcasing some of their most intriguing and impactful material, but they’re also paving the way into a hopeful new chapter.
  2. AllMusic
    May 30, 2025
    80
    Let All That We Imagine Be the Light is another fantastic 2020s offering from this masterful quartet, further solidifying their place as alt-rock royalty.
  3. Under The Radar
    May 30, 2025
    80
    It’s a mature, profoundly human album, weathered but unbroken, scarred yet still yearning.
  5. The Line of Best Fit
    May 28, 2025
    80
    Here is your soundtrack to that world, perhaps unsurprisingly it rocks righteously.
  6. Mojo
    May 27, 2025
    80
    We get bouquets as well as barbed-wire. [Jul 2025, p.84]
  7. Uncut
    May 27, 2025
    80
    Even when the sonic mood broods on "Radical", the optimistic sentiments (quoted in the album title) reflect a creative force in rude force. [Jul 2025, p.27]
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  8. musicOMH.com
    Jun 4, 2025
    70
    The album is not necessarily vintage Garbage, but it confirms the band still have their best qualities intact – no-nonsense music and a vocalist on great form.
  9. Classic Rock Magazine
    May 27, 2025
    70
    One of the band's most reflective releases (here she works toward acceptance of the fragility of her body while also reasserting its many strengths) but also one of their most defiant. [Jul 2025, p.78]
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  10. Pitchfork
    Jun 5, 2025
    64
    Their career arc since 2001’s Beautiful Garbage suggests that wobbly songwriting is as much a tic as their masterful studio expertise. The cult still thrives, and we’ll happily settle for Let All We Imagine Be the Light—until the next album.