Garbage Explain “Sugar” in Mini-Video: Idolator Premiere

As they did with Not Your Kind Of People album track “Big Bright World”, Garbage shot a mini video for “Sugar”, and we’re proud to premiere it — just a day before the album’s May 15 release. The moody track, created by Garbage multi-instrumentalist Duke Erikson, is one of the more slowed-down numbers on the band’s eagerly awaited fifth studio album. “It’s just about being lonely and desperate,” Erikson explains. “It’s somewhat personal, but it’s also kind of a third person narrative, as well.”

In keeping with Not Your Kind Of People‘s visuals thus far, the “Sugar” video treads the thin line between noir and goth chic. Click play above to get a sweet taste of the song.

“I had a few verses and Shirley [Manson] completed it,” Erikson says of the lyrics to “Sugar”. He goes on to add that “her vocal on it is quite amazing.”

Of course, Duke may have hatched the idea for “Sugar”, but, as he explains, “I think by the time any song is completed in a Garbage record, no matter who brought it, it’s no longer theirs.”

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