We fell in love with the vibe on these early mixes. Usually, a good thing about a rough mix is you don’t fuss over it that much. In the past, we would just keep going back and working on it. We do a rough mix, especially after Shirley does a vocal, and then we’ll just sort of sit with it. This is one case where saying something sounds like absolute Garbage is quite the compliment.ĭigital Trends: Butch, how much did you all talk about leaving those initial jams in your basement studio fairly intact, or was that something that come about more organically?īutch Vig: It kinda came organically.
Garbage’s back-to-basics instincts have clearly paid off for Birds, as witnessed by the piano-and-synth-strings dirge of an opening track Sometimes, the 7-minute balls-out caterwauling of Blackout, the resigned grind of Even Though Our Love Is Doomed, and the repentant burble of closing track Amends.īefore Garbage headed overseas to kick-off their summer European tour, Vig, guitarist/keyboardist Steve Marker, and guitarist/keyboardist Duke Erikson all called Digital Trends to discuss the sonic palette of Birds, the pros and cons of streaming, and their 20-years-and-counting legacy. It’s confrontational, and almost confessional.” In a lot of the songs, her voice is mixed way upfront and it’s really dry. “And as she started writing the lyrics to the songs we were working on, we found the music sounded better when we stripped it back. Vig confirmed that approach directly with Digital Trends: “Shirley wanted to make a spontaneous record, one where we had to trust our intuition and our first responses,” he observed. “It’s getting back to that beginner’s headspace.” “This record, funnily enough, has the most to do with the first record than any of the previous records,” Manson said in an official statement. The band opted to stick with the core sonic fruits of many of the initial jam sessions held in drummer/loopmaster/producer Butch Vig’s basement studio in California and, in some cases, leaving Manson’s first-take vocals virtually untouched. They’re the perfect soundscape landscape for frontwoman Shirley Manson’s deeply involving tales of empowerment, vulnerability, and high emotional stakes.īut for their dark and foreboding new album, Strange Little Birds (out today on various formats via their own label, Stunvolume), Garbage took a different tack. Seminal Garbage tracks like Stupid Girl, Queer, #1 Crush, I Think I’m Paranoid, and Bleed Like Me have more layers to their final mixes than any given installment of Game of Thrones. That’s just one reason their brand of pogo-slamming alt-rock that’s married with deep electronic impulses is essentially a genre unto itself. Garbage is a band that never likes doing things the easy way. You have to have a ray of light through the gloom.” “We made a dark record, but there is optimism in there, and that’s the important thing.
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