Garbage, nothing to throw away!

Sixteen years after their first eponymous album, Garbage have brought out what is undoubtedly their best disc with Strange Little Birds, which has just been released. Rock’n’roll as imagined by the American producer Butch Vig (the exact same one who was behind Nirvana’s Nevermind!) and sung by Shirley Mason, is always rolled out with their impressive series of influences and musical intelligence: grunge, metal, punk, shoegazing, pop and electro: it’s hard to confine these Strange Little Birds to a cage. And yet, as is often the case with Garbage, the result has nothing of an artificial montage about it… Above all, with the group members now in their fifties and grunge starting to date, this 2016 vintage is never backward-looking and yet offers characteristics of its time as well as traces of something new. Manson, Vig and their collaborators Duke Erikson and Steve Marker have released perhaps their most personal work here, almost dark and introspective. It must be maturity, not to mention age…

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