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.
Vig: I discovered American pianist and composer Dustin O’Halloran when I heard the sublime and haunting “Opus 28” on KCRW while driving through the rain on a cold December night. It was perfect. Then, in March, I walked into a record store in Reykjavik, heard this beautiful ethereal music floating through the stereo, inquired who it was and promptly bought A Winged Victory For The Sullen. When I got back to my hotel, I looked at the credits, and it turns out to be a collaboration between O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie of Stars Of The Lid. Like O’Halloran’s Piano Solos Vol. 2, Winged Victory is spare, haunting and incredibly beautiful, another perfect antidote for the ADD world we live in.
