Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson has never been the retiring type, but any lingering reticence is ditched on the group’s new album as she unleashes decades of frustration over gender, race and climate issues.
Since jolting 1990s airwaves with electro-rock classics like “Stupid Girl” and “Queer,” Manson has been one of the most charismatic and uninhibited women in music.
But the explicit politics on the seventh Garbage album “No Gods, No Masters,” out last Friday, are something else.
The tone is set with the opening salvo: “The men who rule the world / Have made a fucking mess,” which goes on to tear into capitalism for its environmental destruction.
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