Following the “forthright” and “pissed-off” No Gods No Masters, Garbage have confirmed details of their eighth album – with Shirley Manson revealing that she was “determined to find a more hopeful, uplifting world to immerse myself in”.
Garbage have announced their brand-new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light.
The follow-up to 2021’s righteous No Gods No Masters, the band will be releasing album number eight on May 30, and it sounds as though fans can expect some changes to its predecessor…
“Our last album was extremely forthright,” explains Shirley Manson. “Born out of frustration and outrage – it had a kind of scorched earth, pissed-off quality to it. With this new record, however, I felt a compulsion to reach for a different kind of energy. A more constructive one. I had this vision of us coming up out of the underground with searchlights as we moved towards the future. Searching for life, searching for love, searching for all the good things in the world that seem so thin on the ground right now.
“That was the over-riding idea during the making of this record for me – that when things feel dark, it’s best to try to seek out that which is light, that which feels loving and good. When I was young, I tended towards the destruction of things. Now that I’m older I believe it’s vitally important to build and to create things instead. I still entertain very old romantic ideals about community, society and the world. I don’t want to walk through the world creating havoc, damaging the land and people. I want to do good. I want to do no harm.”
Expanding on that and revealing her mindset going into Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, Shirley says that she was “determined to find a more hopeful, uplifting world to immerse myself in. The title of the album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, is the perfect descriptor for this new record as a whole. When things feel dark it feels imperative to seek out forces that are light, positive and beautiful in the world. It almost feels like a matter of life and death. A strategy for survival.”
Stay tuned for new music from the record “in the coming weeks”.
Let All That We Imagine Be The Light tracklist
1. There’s No Future In Optimism
2. Chinese Fire Horse
3. Hold
4. Have We Met (The Void)
5. Sisyphus
6. Radical
7. Love To Give
8. Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty
9. R U Happy Now
10. The Day That I Met God
