Album review: Garbage – No Gods No Masters
Shirley Manson and Garbage deliver righteous anger and a rallying cry on album number seven, No Gods No Masters.
Words: James Hickie
When Kerrang! conducted a career-spanning interview with Shirley Manson in early 2018, Garbage’s singer was in garrulous form as she identified the ills of a planet she’s occupied for 54 years and counting. “When the world gets scared, the first people they punish are the women,” she suggested, extrapolating on a wider point about the downturn in her band’s fortunes in the post‑9/11 landscape. That her band have gone on to release a new album with a spiky opening track called The Men Who Rule The World should come as a surprise to no one, then. That Garbage should sound so imperious and relevant doing it is the more startling development.
adam levine thinks paramore broke up :(, Williams tweeted.
To be fair, some fans thought the same, given that Williams has released two solo albums in the last two years, including last month s
Flowers for Vases/Descansos. But she reassured worried fans on New Year s Day, replying to a fan s message of Omg I thought paramore was breaking up, tweeting, lol y all been worried about that too long. aint happening.
A band that predates Maroon 5 had something to say about Levine s comment too, with Garbage tweeting in response: What are we Adam Levine? CATS?!?!? Garbage formed in 1993 and found much of their commercial success that decade, but their most recent album,