Listen to Garbage’s New Single Which Tackles the ‘Absolute War on Women in America’

Garbage have dropped their latest single, ‘Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty’, and Shirley Manson certainly isn’t pulling any punches.

The track takes aim at what she calls the “absolute war on women in America.” In doing so, Manson has channelled decades of frustration into three-and-a-half minutes of distortion-soaked defiance.

The single marks the second preview from Garbage’s upcoming album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, out May 30. Where the lead track There’s No Future in Optimism leaned into political despair, Bad Kitty takes that energy and throws it right back in the face of the system.

“Living in America over the last couple of years, the absolute war on women… is astounding,” Manson said in a statement. “All the rights that we felt had been secured are starting to get pushed back into the Middle Ages. It’s not just infuriating, it’s frightening.”

The track is a sharp-tongued response to those pressures. “We’ve got no time for your fragile ego / We’ve nothing to explain, nothing to justify,” Manson sings, her voice cutting clean through a backdrop of gritty bass and ‘90s-style guitar lines. There’s venom in the delivery, but control too — the sound of someone who’s seen behind the curtain and refuses to play along anymore.

In recent interviews, Manson has reflected on how aging in the public eye reveals double standards — particularly for women in music. Last month, she pushed back at a Daily Mail article that described her as “unrecognisable” in new press photos. “I’m nearly 60 years old,” she wrote. “Of course I’m not going to look anything like my late 20s self?!”

With Bad Kitty, she’s made it clear that she has no interest in playing nice or fading quietly. Garbage are gearing up for their first headlining US tour in a decade, and if this track’s anything to go by, it’s going to be quite something.