Garbage have always thrived on tension, disruption, and transformation. Across three decades, the band – Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig – has refused to coast on nostalgia, instead reshaping their sound while staying rooted in their chemistry.
Their eighth album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, may be their most unlikely yet: an intimate and filmic record born from circumstance as much as intent.
For Vig, the story of the album begins with Manson’s health. “Shirley…had to have hip replacement surgery and that took her out of the equation and that made it difficult to sort of move forward with the songs and arrangements because the best way we work is when all four of us are in a room,” he explains. In her absence, the band had to rethink their process.