“Wolves” by Garbage

Garbage pulled three singles from No Gods No Masters, their seventh album, in 2021, and "Wolves" was the last of them, out on the band's own independent label, Stunvolume. Shirley Manson called it the record's pop song, and it runs on guitars with industrial, grunge and electronic grit worked in. Duke Erikson, Manson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig wrote it together, the band produced it with Billy Bush, who also engineered and mixed, and Eric Avery plays bass.

The idea came from the two-wolves parable, a boy with good and evil wrestling inside him, which Manson read somewhere, saved as a note on her computer and could never trace again. She called the result a song about inner conflict, regret and duality: deciding whether you'll do harm or try to do some good.

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