Garbage will release their eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, on May 30th, which the band describes as a “tender, thrilling record about the fragility of life.”.
The band and Billy Bush are responsible for producing the album.
Shirley Manson defines this work in a broader way:
This record is about what it means to be alive, and about what it means to face your imminent destruction. It’s hopeful. It’s very tender towards what it means to be a human being. Our flaws and our failures are still beautiful, even though we’re taught that they’re not. This is a tender, thrilling record about the fragility of life.
The first single from the new album is the track "There’s No Future In Optimism".
Manson spoke about the song's lyrics:
It’s about a city, in my case, Los Angeles, but it could be anywhere where bad stuff is happening. After the George Floyd murder, which is one of few things in my life that I wish I’d never seen: I was changed entirely by seeing the footage of that cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. In Los Angeles there were huge protests and a lot of upheaval after that. Above our house in Hollywood, there were helicopters all day long, for days on end. It was really precarious, chaotic and terrifying.
