GARBAGE RETURN
BAND PUTTING FINISHING TOUCHES ON NEW STUDIO ALBUM
DUE OUT IN 2012
Los Angeles, CA - October 3, 2011 - Garbage
is currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on their fifth
studio album and their first in seven years. The new album is being
recorded in a basement in the Atwater Village area of Los Angeles, CA,
the first to be recorded outside of Madison, WI. The
as yet untitled album will be released in Spring 2012, and is being
produced by Garbage, engineered by Billy Bush, and mixed by Butch Vig
and Billy Bush.
"Years-worth
of pent-up music came out in some bizarre ways- bleary cell phone memos
became real songs, conversations turned into lyrics, and new computer
gizmos inspired wicked tangents," said the members of Garbage. "Ghosts
came in, had their say. Everyone brought ideas, and everyone fought
their corner. At the end of the day it all gets shoved through the
four-way brain filter that is Garbage and it ends up sounding like
nobody else. Red feathers and black tar."
Even
though it's been seven years, there hasn't been a female-fronted band
since that has matched their inimitable sound, brashness and energy. Now
free of all their corporate obligations, the band has been able to start again with a clean slate on their own terms. They add, "We
are making a record filled with the music we love to hear. The new
songs have been inspired more by what we haven't been hearing rather
than by what we have."
After
forming in Madison, WI, Garbage released their self-titled debut album
in 1995 and rode a wave of visually arresting, female-fronted
alternative rock bands. The album spawned the hit singles "Stupid Girl"
and "Only Happy When It Rains" and was certified double platinum in
Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The band won the
Breakthrough Artist Award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards. Their
second album, Garbage 2.0, was released in 1998 and topped the
charts in the United Kingdom. It was nominated for two Grammy Awards
including Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. 2001's Beautiful Garbage was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine's Top 10 Albums Of The Year. In 2005, Garbage released Bleed Like Me,
earning the band it's highest chart position with a No. 4 on the
Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. In 2007, the band released a
retrospective collection called Absolute Garbage. Garbage has sold over 12 million albums worldwide.
Garbage is Shirley
Manson (vocals, guitar), Steve Marker (guitars, keyboards), Duke
Erikson (guitars, keyboards) and Butch Vig (drums, loops).
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