New album due 2016
Shirley Manson has taken time out to speak with Digital Spy. In the interview she confirms that the new album will be released next year and be the bands most romantic yet.
In interview in full:
Shirley Manson has some good news for Garbage fans – a new album is on its way.
The frontwoman told Digital Spy that the band have been working on a new record for the past 18 months, and it’s set to be their most romantic yet.
“We’ve got a new record out next year. Life is so weird, right? You never know what’s going to happen around the corner,” said Manson.
“It’s almost finished, but just actually committing to ending it seems beyond my band’s ability. There are tiny increments of progress.
“Literally a week out of every month there’ll be a tiny increment of progress. I mean, there’s something wrong with us! I’m not kidding!”
The new album will act as the follow-up to Garbage’s 2012 record Not Your Kind of People.
“I’ve been talking about it, from a lyrical standpoint, being the most romantic,” Manson said of the new album.
“When I say romance, I mean the romance of living as opposed to ‘man and woman get together and make sweet love’ – I don’t mean it that way. It’s a soft record in a funny way, my softest romantic record.”
The singer explained that the band’s sixth LP has been inspired by growing older and the fearlessness that comes with it.
“Your relationship changes with your own life as you get older and it’s so strange to be celebrating our 20th anniversary and one minute you’re young and the next minute you’re like, ‘Wow I’m an adult, this is insane’,” she continued.
“I’ve lived almost half a century and it just changes your relationship to everything in a funny way and how you see things. Once I was so hostile and so fearful that I was really aggressive all the time and now I feel like I’m not scared anymore for whatever reason.
“There’s something incredibly great about getting older that nobody ever seems to talk about, and for me it was [that] the fear dropped away completely and I felt fearless, and that changed everything for me.”
Meanwhile, Garbage are reissuing their iconic debut album this year to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
The band will also hit the road for their 20 Years Queer Tour in November as part of the celebrations.