CocoRosie – “Nothing But Garbage” | Single Review

CocoRosie doesn’t so much release music as they exorcise it—dragging songs into the light, half-feral, half-fragile, always brimming with chaotic beauty. With “Nothing But Garbage,” the latest single ahead of their eighth studio album Little Death Wishes (out now via Joyful Noise), the Casady sisters once again deliver a track that feels like it was unearthed from a dreamscape and stitched together with barbed wire and broken glass.

Opening with a menacing pulse that stutters and stings, “Nothing But Garbage” bleeds vulnerability through layers of distortion, broken beats, and Bianca’s unmistakable rasp—a voice that seems to simultaneously mock and mourn. Sierra’s operatic flourishes glide above the grit like a silk dress dragging through the mud. The juxtaposition is quintessential CocoRosie: avant-garde but grounded in emotional truth, unsettling yet undeniably human.

The lyrics hover in existential discontent, littered with imagery that feels both literal and metaphoric—trash as a symbol, as texture, as testament. Whether CocoRosie is exploring society’s tendency to discard what’s no longer convenient, or baring the raw scars of being labeled and cast aside, “Nothing But Garbage” reads like a manifesto disguised as a confession. It’s haunting, defiant, and strangely intimate.

The track’s release precedes what promises to be a wildly immersive live experience—CocoRosie’s Jubilation Ball: A Tits Out Ecstatic Rave Celebration at Xanadu in New York—a roller rink transformed into a sanctuary of ecstatic weirdness, defiant joy, and unapologetic self-expression. It’s more than a party. It’s performance art. It’s protest. It’s CocoRosie.

With Little Death Wishes, featuring collaborators like Chance the Rapper (“Girl in Town”), the sisters continue to blur genre lines, redefine femininity, and carve out a space for the misfits, the misunderstood, and the magical. If “Nothing But Garbage” is any indication, this album is less a return and more a reinvention—rawer, deeper, and more unflinchingly honest than ever.

For those who’ve followed CocoRosie from La maison de mon rêve to Put The Shine On, this single reaffirms what we’ve always known: trash is never just trash. In the Casady sisters’ hands, it becomes art.