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Not Your Kind of People is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock group Garbage. The album marks the return of the band after a six-year "hiatus", taken after the release of their last set, and has a worldwide release date of May 14, 2012. The album will be released worldwide through the band's own record label, STUNVOLUME.

"Working with Garbage again was very instinctual", said guitarist Duke Erikson at the launch of the record. "Like getting on a bicycle... with three other people", Erikson added, "We haven't felt this good about a Garbage record since the last one." The album will be preceded by the release of "Blood for Poppies" as the lead single internationally, while in the United Kingdom, "Battle in Me" is being marketed as the album's lead single.

Recorded mostly at various recording studios in California, the album produced by Garbage, and was engineered and mixed by Billy Bush. The album contains bass guitar parts recorded by Justin Meldal-Johnsen while Finnish actress Irina Björklund performs the musical saw on one track. Both daughters of band-members Steve Marker and Butch Vig laid down vocals on the album's title track. Photos for the album package were shot by Autumn de Wilde at the Paramour Mansion in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Background and recording

During the six years since Garbage's last studio album, 2005's Bleed Like Me, the band members found themselves involved in various projects—Vig produced albums and tracks by Green Day, Foo Fighters, and Muse, while Manson recorded an unreleased solo album and made her professional acting debut as a series regular on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The band members still visited each other in Los Angeles, where both Vig and Manson live, and according to Steve Marker they started to realize that despite the hiatus they still wanted to play with each other. In mid-2010, the entire group were in Los Angeles for a birthday, where Manson suggested they book a studio and spend time writing. Three or four song ideas came together during this time. "But we didn't go right into making-a-record mode", Erikson recalled. "It took a bit of time for us to realize that we were going to make an album."

Unlike the previous albums, which were done at Vig's Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, Not Your Kind of People was mostly recorded at Red Razor Sounds in the Atwater Village area of Los Angeles, California. Additional recording sessions took place at GrungeIsDead in Silver Lake, Los Angeles; The Pass in Studio City, Los Angeles; Snowglobe Studios in Colorado; EastWest in Hollywood; and Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.

"When we made the first record, we had nothing to lose. We said, 'Hey, let's put a record out, that would be fun.' We didn't even think we'd ever play live. It was really just for our own enjoyment. Now, here we are however many years later, and we didn't have a record company, we had no plans on touring. In some ways, we were in the same position, which I think was great, because there was nobody breathing down our necks. We had no pressure and no expectations on this. I think it really served us well just to do it for fun again."

The band members stated that following the troublesome final years signed to Geffen Records, being an independent act helped improve their mood, with Vig stating, "There was no one telling us what to do. We weren't signed to a label. We were between managers. So we made this on our own terms, and we decided early on we didn't want to reinvent ourselves, we just wanted to embrace exactly who we are and do the things as a band that we love. I think that's one reason why there is a vibe or a spirit that some people have said is reminiscent of the first Garbage record." Marker added that "the business stuff ends up taking over some of that fun. We got really bogged down in people's expectations of what we were supposed to be doing, being on bigger record labels and stuff. With all that behind us, it was suddenly exciting again and it felt a lot like it did when we first formed, which was really just sort of a fun idea that we had", and Manson claimed that "people at record companies live in fear of being wrong. Music cannot thrive in that environment. It is an unruly art form. You can't keep treating it like sausage meat. You have to let it morph and move and breathe." Vig also stated that the conflicts that emerged during Bleed Like Me went away during the hiatus as "enough time had passed that any sort of weirdness or tension that had risen between us all had dissipated."

The band worked on estimatedly "25 or 26 songs" during the album sessions. While a few are still "bits and pieces", Vig stated they might finish them as further bonus tracks, B-sides, or as part of an EP throughout the campaign. Throughout the recording sessions for the album, the band also mentioned several song titles via Facebook and Twitter. These included: "Alone", "Animal", "Choose Your Weapon", "Time Will Destroy Everything" and "T.R.O.U.B.L.E.".

Composition

According to Vig, Not Your Kind of People marks a return to the sound of Garbage's first two albums, Garbage and Version 2.0 - "There's lots of elements of things we've always loved: noisy guitars, big electronic beats, atmospheric film moments" - adding that the band "wanted to make a record sound like something that we want to hear when we're driving the car."

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Release and promotion

On March 7, 2012, Garbage confirmed the album tracklist via YouTube. Four further tracks recorded for the deluxe edition were confirmed later in a press release issued through the band's own label.

Tour

In late 2011, Garbage announced their return to touring upon the release of Not Your Kind of People. The shows will be the first performances by the band since 2007. "Thinking about going back on the road is both thrilling and terrifying in equal measure", Manson stated. "…but we've always enjoyed a little pain mixed in with our pleasure."

Singles

"Blood for Poppies" was confirmed as the lead single to launch the album. The song was made available for free digital download from the group's website after the song leaked online early. A digital single was confirmed for release in Australia; while a limited edition 7" single, backed with an exclusive remix by Butch Vig, was be distributed to independent record stores across North America to mark Record Store Day on April 21, 2012. "Battle in Me" was confirmed as the lead-single exclusively for the United Kingdom. A limited edition 7" vinyl was be issued on April 21 to mark Record Store Day while a proper commercial release is scheduled for May 7, 2012.

To promote the album, "Automatic Systematic Habit" was released as a free download through iTunes in the US on May 8, 2012. "Big Bright World" will be released as the album's second single in Australia on June 1, 2012.

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	62/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Irish Times
Entertainment Weekly	B
The Guardian
musicOMH
NME	3/10
Pitchfork Media	6.4/10
Rolling Stone
Spin	8/10
Virgin Media

Critical reception

Not Your Kind of People received generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62 based on 23 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". The Melbourne based newspaper Herald Sun gave the album three out of a possible five stars; the reviewer Cameron Adams writing: "Musically, they still find that sweet spot between Motown and Nirvana, via the Pretenders and Prodigy ... It's refreshing to know they're still pushing pop music to its darkest limits." A separate review from the UK based paper The Guardian gave the album four out of a possible five stars, stating that "Their first album since 2005 returns to the blueprint of their first two, best albums, the major change being fewer electronics, more fuzzy guitars and production aimed at the Gaga generation ... the surprise is the title track—a beautiful, otherworldly cross between a John Barry Bond theme and a David Bowie outsider anthem."

However, the album also received negative reviews from the likes of NME, who considered it "pedestrian" and "anodyne", and wondered "why they ever ditched the near-perfect mid-'90s FM rock of Stupid Girl to become every Russian Placebo-loving nut's third favourite band." BBC Music writer Tom Hocknell noted that the band's relocation from their base in Madison, Wisconsin to L.A. made "no discernible difference to the band's sound" and commented that the album "occasionally lapses into overproduced mess," before summarizing that Manson " succumbed to the recent trend of reunions, but that is exactly what this is." Similarly, Clash commented that the album "plods along with an overproduced pompousness that falls somewhere between boring and annoying", rating the album 3 out of 10.

Commercial performance

In the United States, Not Your Kind of People was released exclusively through iTunes during its first week, and debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200 with digital sales of over 19,000 copies. On its second week, the album rose to #13 with sales of over 22,000 copies. In the United Kingdom, the album was on course for a top 5 debut, after the BBC midweek chart predicted an entry position of #5, it instead became the band's fifth top 10 studio album when it entered at #10 with first week sales of 8,310 copies, falling to #63 on its second week. The album also debuted at #33 on the Japanese Oricon chart, with first-week sales of 1,983 copies.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Garbage

Sample credits

• "Big Bright World" contains a lyrical sample from the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas.
• "Beloved Freak" contains a sample from "Valentine's Day" by Klaus Nomi.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Not Your Kind of People album liner notes.

Band

• Garbage – producers
• Shirley Manson – vocals, synthesizer, Stylophone
• Duke Erikson – guitar, synthesizer, piano
• Steve Marker – guitar, synthesizer, noises
• Butch Vig – drums, loops, effects, mixing

Additional

Charts

Release history

In the United Kingdom, 250 copies of the deluxe edition will be signed by Garbage and issued as part of the Record Store Day campaign.

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External links

• Not Your Kind of People at Metacritic
• Garbage.com – Official website

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