Garbage has shared its tackle Siouxsie And The Banshees’ 1985 music “Cities In Dust” as a part of a brand new Record Store Day launch.
The band, which is led by Shirley Manson, launched a brand new EP titled Witness To Your Love for this 12 months’s world celebration of unbiased document shops. Now, weeks after that particular bodily launch, the EP has arrived on digital platforms – together with the Banshees cowl.
Garbage’s spin on “Cities In Dust” stays largely devoted to the unique however provides flashes of searing guitar traces. At the top of the music, Manson provides her personal lyrical nod to the observe’s unique creators, whispering, “I love you, Siouxsie,” by way of the final lashings of sound.
Speaking to NME in 2018, Manson shared her love for the Banshees’ frontwoman Siouxsie Sioux. “Siouxsie Sioux […] literally changed my life and filled me with power that I didn’t have,” she defined. “I just stole it from her, and I faked it until I made it, literally. Siouxsie And The Banshees did something inexplicable to me that I can never thank her enough for.”
The unique model of “Cities In Dust” appeared on the Banshees’ seventh studio album, Tinderbox, which was launched in 1986. Its lyrics depict the Italian metropolis of Pompeii after the notorious volcanic eruption that destroyed the place in 79 AD. “We found you hiding, we found you lying/Choking on the dirt and sand,” Sioux sings. “Your former glories, and all the stories/Dragged and washed with eager hands.”
This summer time, Garbage will hit the highway in North America because it joins Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds for a co-headline tour of the continent. The dates will kick off on June 2 at Auburn, WA’s White River Amphitheatre and run till July 15 when it’ll wrap up at Boston, MA’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway.
Meanwhile, Sioux is ready to make her stay comeback subsequent month, together with her first stay present in a decade set to happen on the AB venue in Brussels. After a handful of dates throughout Europe and one in Pasadena, CA, the star will return to the UK for exhibits in Wolverhampton, North Shields, and at Latitude Festival.
Buy or stream the Witness To Your Love EP.