Garbage will return with new music this spring in the form of the album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, which will be released May 30. There’s no music out yet from the 10-track collection, which was produced by the Shirley Manson-led band and engineer Billy Bush.
Speaking of the follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters, Manson said, “our last album was extremely forthright. Born out of frustration and outrage, it had a kind of scorched earth, pissed off quality to it. With this new record however, I felt a compulsion to reach for a different kind of energy. A more constructive one. I had this vision of us coming up out of the underground with searchlights as we moved towards the future. Searching for life, searching for love, searching for all the good things in the world that seem so thin on the ground right now.”
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“That was the over-riding idea during the making of this record for me — that when things feel dark, it’s best to try to seek out that which is light, that which feels loving and good,” she continues. “When I was young, I tended towards the destruction of things. Now that I’m older I believe it’s vitally important to build and to create things instead. I still entertain very old romantic ideals about community, society and the world. I don’t want to walk through the world creating havoc, damaging the land and people. I want to do good. I want to do no harm.”
Let All That We Imagine was introduced today (Feb. 27) with a related quote from author Tennessee Williams: “The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
It’s said to embody “all the hallmarks and signatures for which they are known are present here. Big angular guitars, precise, propulsive beats and cinematic soundscapes all lurk beneath Shirley Manson’s expressive voice, her lyrics bristling with attitude.”
Garbage will be on tour in South America beginning March 12 in Bogota. Their only U.S. dates at the moment are May 17 at the Cruel World festival in Pasadena, Ca., and Aug. 2 opening a My Chemical Romance stadium show outside Dallas.
Here is the track list for Let All That We Imagine Be the Light:
“There’s No Future in Optimism”
“Chinese Fire Horse”
“Hold”
“Have We Met (The Void)”
“Sisyphus”
“Radical”
“Love To Give”
“Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty”
“R U Happy Now”
“The Day That I Met God”
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