Garbage Announces New Album, Strange Little Birds, Due This June


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Long-running industrial pop:rock band Garbage has announced via social media that their new album, their first in four years is coming in late spring. Strange Little Birds, is due out on June 10th from the bands own label STUNVOLUME. Their last release Not Your Kind Of People, also came from their label in 2012.

The band released the track listing and artwork for the album as well. Produced by

Band member and legendary producer Butch Vig at his Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, Garbage which also includes singer Shirley Manson, with Steve Marker, Duke Erikson feels the album is akin to their 1995 self:titled début album. Manson commented : “The guiding principle was keeping it fresh, and relying on instinct both lyrically and musically” and that the new record is Strange Little Birds is “less fussed over” than previous efforts. Regarding the less stringent writing and recording process Vig added : “We fell in love with immediacy,”.

Garbage 2016 photo credit Joseph Cultice

Strange Little Birds track listing

1. Sometimes

2. Empty

3. Blackout

4. If I Lost You

5. Night Drive Loneliness

6. Even Though Our Love Is Doomed

7. Magnetized

8. We Never Tell

9. So We Can Stay Alive

10. Teaching Little Fingers To Play

11. Amends

 

Garbage, who celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2015 with their “20 Years Queer Tour”, has booked a slate of European summer music festivals. All confirmed dates are below with more tba.

 

Garbage World Tour 2016 confirmed dates

May 24: La Cartonnerie : Reims, FR

May 26: Rock im Revier Festival : Dortmund, DE

May 27: Women Of The World Festival : Frankfurt, DE

May 28: Rockavaria Festival : Munich, DE

May 30: The Paradiso : Amsterdam, DK

May 31: Den Atelier : Luxembourg, LX

Jun 01: Caribana Festival : Nyon, CH

Jun 03: Le Radiant : Lyon, FR

Jun 04: Montereau Confluence Festival : Montereau, FR

Jun 05: La Belle Electrique : Grenoble, FR

Jun 07: Center Urbane Kulture Kino Siska : Ljubljana, SL

Jun 08: Fabrique : Milan, IT

Jun 10: Nova Rock Festival : Nickelsdorf, AT

Jun 13: Troxy : London, UK

Jun 14: Rock City : Nottingham, UK

Aug 8: Lokerse Festival : Lokeren, BE

Aug 10: A Summer’s Tale : Luhmühlen, DE

 

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