Did you catch this? Garbage just announced their eighth studio album, ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’!
The ten-song-album follow up to 2021’s ‘No Gods No Master’ and is expected out on May 30. You can pre-order here and expect the first single “in the coming weeks”.
Garbage recorded ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’ at Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, California. Although sessions also took place at drummer and producer Butch Vig’s studio, Grunge Is Dead, as well as singer Shirley Manson’s bedroom.
The record was produced by Garbage and longtime engineer Billy Bush. And yes, it’s all four original band members: Manson, Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker.
The tracklist for Garbage’s ‘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’
Here’s a statement about the album from singer Shirley Manson:
“Our last album was extremely forthright. Born out of frustration and outrage – it had a kind of scorched earth, pissed off quality to it,” she explained. “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. 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. 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.”
Mason continues, “Going into making this record, I was determined to find a more hopeful, uplifting world to immerse myself in. The title of the album, ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’, is the perfect descriptor for this new record as a whole. When things feel dark it feels imperative to seek out forces that are light, positive and beautiful in the world. It almost feels like a matter of life and death. A strategy for survival.”
The album is described as “unmistakably Garbage”, saying “all the hallmarks and signatures for which they are known”.
Pretty exciting – we’ll have a new Garbage album in time for summer ’25! I know what I’ll be binging while sipping a beer on the front deck.
