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theavc:

After a while, we really got beaten down by corporate expectations, and as a result, I think we all just wanted to buck against that. It was like a creative straitjacket. Because when you’re signed to a record label, you have to run all your music through them, and they decide whether they will release it or not. After a while, you just want to scream, and hand them some really obscure, weird, obtuse, unmarketable music, but then of course they’d never release it. I think taking a hiatus was our reaction against that. We wanted to free ourselves of that straitjacket. Then, of course, years passed, and you start to feel creative again, and get excited about the notion of getting into a room with people you love, and making music.

-Shirley Manson on the new Garbage record. Photo by Autumn de Wilde

Saw Garbage last night in Atlantic City and OMG they’re so great. Amazing sound, great setlist (mostly from the first two albums), and Shirley is the sweetest rock star ever. So glad they’re back.

(via garbageofficial)