Not Your Kind of People by Garbage

Not Your Kind of People, Garbage's fifth album, came out on May 11, 2012 on Stunvolume, the band's own label, ending the seven-year silence that had followed Bleed Like Me. Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig produced it themselves, mostly in California studios with Billy Bush engineering and mixing, and they made a point of not reinventing anything: this is the classic Garbage sound, glossy and serrated, buffed up for a new decade.

Manson's gloom hasn't gone anywhere, but a surprising number of these songs look on the bright side, shaped by what she lived through during the break. Justin Meldal-Johnsen played the bass parts, Finnish actress Irina Björklund added musical saw to one track, and daughters of Marker and Vig sang on the title song. "Blood for Poppies" led the way, with "Battle in Me" first out in Britain; reviews were warm, and it topped Billboard's Alternative Albums chart.

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