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Once the quartet was free of industry shackles, they were able to get back to making music. “We got together with no agenda other than to just jam a little bit, fuck around and see what we came up with and it was inspiring,” Vig says. “With nobody putting any pressure on us, the songwriting started to happen really quickly.”

The result of that initial jam session is a yet untitled album, due in March or April of 2012, according to Vig, with a single out possibly by the end of this year. “I think you can hear some energy and a vibe in the tracks that sounds refreshing,” he says, “a little bit more to me like the first two records.”

The record, by all accounts, is unmistakably Garbage. “Yeah, definitely it sounds like us for sure,” Manson says, “and everybody has responded that way.”

“Somehow we have a collective sound. When we spin the ideas through the four of our brains it comes out and it’s kind of a thing that’s identifiable,” Vig says. “That sounds like Garbage, for better or for worse.”