Garbage, one of the fundamental groups of the 90s in its mixture of grunge and what we then called precisely “future”, especially thanks to its second album ‘Version 2.0’, is back. We are going for the 8th study album in 30 years of career and his name is ‘Let All That We imagine Be the Light’, for sale on May 30. Its cover includes a “light”, the title and an octopus.
It will be a political work judging by the press release in which they talk about him. Shirley Manson says that if his previous album, ‘No Gods No Masters’, was born of “frustration and outrage”, the new intends to be more “constructive”: “When everything seems so dark, it is imperative to look for luminous, positive and beautiful forces in the world. It is almost a matter of life or death. A survival strategy ».
The first single today is called ‘There’s no Future in Optimism’. Shirley Manson has described him as “a hymn to call weapons, a war cry for all who think the same.” His lyrics try Very strong Bringing to that place of light, repeating phrases as “if you are prepared to love” and words like “future” and “love”; as well as proposals such as “there is no future that cannot be designed with some imagination and a wonderful mind.” But music and melody seem to go the other way.
‘There’s no Future in Optimism’ is one of those dark songs of Garbage -it is not precisely ‘Special’-, and in reality it sounds as homeless as the world listening to anything that Donald Trump will think of saying that day. His only comfort is to be the first track of ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’. Hopefully, as this advance towards its 10 and last track (which talks about mortality at a time of illness, but also about gratitude), offer some more light.
01. There’s no Future In Optimism
02. Chinese Fire Horse
03. HOLD
04. Have we met (The Void)
05. Sisyphus
Radical 06
07. Love to give
08. Get out my face Aka Bad Kitty
09. Ru Happy Now
10. The Day That I Met God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zridnujzaqq
