Garbage To Release New Material

Garbage are set to release their fifth studio album after a seven year absence from the music industry.

The band are in the studio in the Los Angeles, putting the finishing touches to the currently untitled album, which will be released in Spring 2012.

Garbage have described the new material, which is being mixed by Butch Vig, as a product of their period of absence, influenced by each individual member.

The band said in a statement: “Years-worth of pent-up music came out in some bizarre ways- bleary cell phone memos became real songs, conversations turned into lyrics, and new computer gizmos inspired wicked tangents. Ghosts came in, had their say. Everyone brought ideas, and everyone fought their corner.  At the end of the day it all gets shoved through the four-way brain filter that is Garbage and it ends up sounding like nobody else.  Red feathers and black tar.”

Garbage released their self-titled debut album in 1995, featuring the singles ‘Stupid Girl’ and ‘Only Happy When It Rains’. Garbage have sold over 12 million albums worldwide.