If it feels like it’s been ages since the last time we’ve heard from Garbage, it’s because it has. It’s been about 7 years since the band’s last full-length release, which was 2005’s “Bleed Like Me.” Speaking as a longtime fan, that album left me a bit cold. Both musically and vocally it lacked that spark I’ve come to love from the classic days of their eponymous debut and “Version 2.0” respectively.
If it’s any consolation the band hadn’t completely fallen off the grid. Drummer/Legendary-As-Hell-Producer Butch Vig hopped back behind the console and produced recent efforts from Green Day, Against Me! and Foo Fighters‘ Grammy-winning behemoth “Wasting Light.” Shirley Manson wrote for her unreleased solo album and even took a little time out to take up an acting gig, playing a sexy T-1001 Terminator in Fox’s short-lived sci-fi drama “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”
Cybernetic killing machines be damned, Garbage have broken their hiatus to bring us their next album, “Not Your Kind of People” due May 15 on the band’s independent label STUNVOLUME. To further sweeten the deal Garbage is making the first single “Blood For Poppies” available for free download on their official site. Bonus!
I’ve taken the liberty of checking it out and I wasn’t really impressed upon my first listen. I was expecting something a little less kitschy, but first impressions can often be deceiving. I’ll see how it stacks up come May when the full album drops.
So what do you think, guys and gals? Is Garbage finally back or does this deserve to be tossed in the, well, garbage?
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