Mushroom's focus turns to Garbage comeback.

With legal complications over the release of their third album now behind them, Mushroom's Garbage are preparing to unveil the most obviously commercial sounding record in their career.

Mushroom Records UK general manager Wez says, "They have updated their sound and have used production influences from a lot of current sounds, including R&B."

The album, beautifulgarbage, was recorded over 12 months in the band's own Wisconsin studio and is their most commercial and diverse work to date following 1995's eponymous debut and the follow-up, 1998's Version 2.0. Vocalist Shirley Manson suggests that it is more complex than that, however. "Maybe on first listen it sounds more commercial, but underneath that is a complexity to the songs and the production. The first time you hear it may sound like it has a poppier edge but that is overtaken by other aspects after repeated plays," she says.

If new influences are apparent, such as the electro production of planned second single Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!), they are not intended. "I guess we absorb things through radio and the media but it's not like we set out to ...