Garbage: new album is about being a geek

Shirley, Butch and the gang are back for their first album in six years

Filed in Garbage, News at 11.13am on 19 October 11

Garbage Garbage are finishing work on their first album since 2005's Bleed Like Me.

Speaking to Spin, singer Shirley Manson explained how the new material is like, yet unlike, their debut album.

"There's an energy there that is, I think, reminiscent of the first record; a sort of hungriness is there", she said. "The overriding themes are pretty much about being a misfit, a geek, a nerd, a forgotten-about, in a way. It is really ironic because when the band initially started taking off, I thought, 'Wow, I'm no longer a geek! I'm cool! I'm hip! I'm popular!' And of course, the feelings never went away".

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