Garbage Hit Back At The Daily Mail

Announcing a new album should lead to an exciting period for artists, but for Garbage, their first week of new album promo was hampered by a somewhat cruel article.

Last week, The Daily Mail published an article with the headline, “Iconic American rock band look unrecognisable in new album promo snaps as they promote its first single”. The band saw it and shared a response on social media.

The band responded to the publication eloquently, taking the headline’s language as something “weaponised” to put singer Shirley Manson in her place.

“Well well well………quite a header from the Daily Mail yesterday,” the band’s post, written by Manson and featuring a screenshot of the headline, began.

“What is THIS supposed to mean?!?

“The Druids look almost exactly the same as they have always done for thirty years, so I can’t help thinking this is directed at me.”

The band continued, “Look - I’m nearly sixty years old. Of course I’m not going to look anything like my late twenties self?!? Quite honestly, I think it would be a bit creepy if I did, but hey, that’s just me.

“Either way - this kind of language is weaponised to put a woman like me in my place. So I have decided to reject this gift. This gift is a fail. I shall continue to age as I am.

“I will continue to wrinkle and flub - lose an inch of my height here and gain a new inch or two there - but I will still look cute in my pyjamas with bed head and no make-up on, and I will always - no matter what I look like - no matter what they say about me - I will always - and forever - rock HARDER than most.”

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Garbage announced their new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, last week. They also dropped the first single, There’s No Future In Optimism, and confirmed that the album will be released on Friday, 30 May, via BMG.

The band, consisting of original members Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig, recorded the album at the Los Angeles studio Red Razor Sounds, Vig’s Grunge Is Dead, and Manson’s bedroom. It was produced by the band and longtime engineer Billy Bush.

Manson said about the album, “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.”

On the single, she added, “I love the title. The band sent it to 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. After the George Floyd murder, which is one of [the] 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.”

You can pre-order/pre-save Let All That We Imagine Be The Light here.