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From The Desk Of Garbage’s Duke Erikson: The Lucian Freud Retrospective

Garbage is back. And the band’s sound is the same—but different. Not Your Kind Of People (StunVolume) is the quartet’s first album since 2005, and the distance has got Garbage’s creative juices flowing in exciting ways. First single “Blood For Poppies” has the same driving drums, ripping guitars and biting lyrics as earlier LPs but a poppier hook, while “Battle In Me” is much angrier and, well, Garbage-ier. Not Your Kind Of People is a great fusion of the old and the new—and after seven years of waiting, we are pretty psyched the band is back. The quartet will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com for two weeks, but for those of you who need more Garbage, read our 20 Questions feature with Shirley Manson and Butch Vig.

Erikson: There’s a Lucian Freud retrospective now on at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Freud was my favorite living artist. Now, of course, among my favorite artists of all time. I should probably buy tix for this immediately since we’ll be arriving London during the last days of the show, and they’ll be lining up to see this!

Video after the jump.