Garbage unveiled the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light on Thursday – and looked unrecognisable in promo snaps.
The American rock band formed in 1993 consists of Scottish musician Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig has remained unchanged since its inception.
Garbage revealed the new single called There’s No Future In Optimism this week accompanied by a cinematic video, shot and directed by Benjy Kirkman.
This is the first single from the band’s forthcoming new album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, out on May 30.
Speaking about the album Shirley said: ‘I love the title. The band sent it me and I was like, ‘This is great. I’m keeping that.’ But the lyrics are an action against that title.
‘Because if we allow our fatalism or our negativity to really take over, we will crumble. It’s about a city, in my case, Los Angeles, but it could be anywhere where bad stuff is happening.
Garbage unveiled the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light on Thursday – and looked unrecognisable in promo snaps
The American rock band formed in 1993 consists of Scottish musician Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig has remained unchanged since its inception
‘After the George Floyd murder, which is one of few things in my life that I wish I’d never seen: I was changed entirely by seeing the footage of that cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck.
‘In Los Angeles there were huge protests and a lot of upheaval after that. Above our house in Hollywood, there were helicopters all day long, for days on end. It was really precarious, chaotic and terrifying.’
Garbage will embark on a 31-city tour across North America this autumn, in support of the new album.
Happy Endings, Garbage’s forthcoming tour, will stop at New York’s Brooklyn Paramount, Washington D.C.’s The Anthem, San Francisco’s The Warfield and more, with tickets on sale now.
For over thirty years, Garbage’s powerful live show has captivated audiences and continues to inspire worldwide adoration and this year’s shows are the band’s first extensive headline tour dates in the U.S. in almost ten years.
For more information on Garbage’s live dates, visit their website.
Garbage’s new album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light was recorded at Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, Butch Vig’s studio Grunge Is Dead, and Shirley Manson’s bedroom.
Garbage will embark on a 31-city tour across North America this autumn, in support of the new album
Garbage revealed the new single called There’s No Future In Optimism this week accompanied by a cinematic video, shot and directed by Benjy Kirkman (pictured in 2012 L to R: Steve Marker, Butch Vig, Shirley Manson, former member Eric Avery and Duke Erikson)
This is the first single from the band’s forthcoming new album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, out on May 30
Over the 30 years since their inception in 1995 they have sold over 20 million albums (Shirley pictured L last month and R singing in 1998)
The record was produced by the band and longtime engineer Billy Bush.
The album is unmistakably Garbage and all the hallmarks and signatures for which they are known are present.
Speaking about the album, she added: ‘This record is about what it means to be alive, and about what it means to face your imminent destruction. It’s hopeful.
‘It’s very tender towards what it means to be a human being. Our flaws and our failures are still beautiful, even though we’re taught that they’re not. This is a tender, thrilling record about the fragility of life.’
Garbage consists of all four original band members, Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig.
Over the 30 years since their inception in 1995 they have sold over 20 million albums.
Garbage’s new single There’s No Future In Optimism is out now and their new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is released on May 30.
Garbage’s new single There’s No Future In Optimism is out now and their new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is released on May 30
The new release is their eighth studio album and was ‘forged out of the need to find an uplifting thread amidst the swell of chaos and extraordinary upheaval in the world’ (pictured in 2024)
