Garbage announce new album following Shirley Manson's health battle

Garbage have revealed they are on the cusp of releasing a new album - weeks after Shirley Manson was hospitalised.

Scottish singer Manson, 58, worried fans last year when she shared photographs from hospital as she recovered from surgery - with her sudden health issue causing the band to cancel tour plans.

Now the singer, along with American bandmates Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig, has revealed a new album is coming out in three months.

Sharing their news via social media on Thursday, the band wrote, "We are both excited and grateful to be able to announce that our eighth studio record Let All That We Imagine Be The Light will be released on May 30th."

Teasing details of the record, Manson said, per the Daily Mail, "Our last album was extremely forthright. Born out of frustration and outrage - it had a kind of scorched earth, p**sed off quality to it.

"With this new record however, I felt a compulsion to reach for a different kind of energy. A more constructive one. I had this vision of us coming up out of the underground with searchlights as we moved towards the future.

"Searching for life, searching for love, searching for all the good things in the world that seem so thin on the ground right now.

"That was the over-riding idea during the making of this record for me - that when things feel dark, its best to try to seek out that which is light, that which feels loving and good. When I was young, I tended towards the destruction of things. Now that I'm older I believe it's vitally important to build and to create things instead."