Northern Gloom
Garbage

Northern Gloom are perpetually brilliant and there’s something about ‘Garbage’ that manages to conjure T-Rex’s The Slider, and Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape all in one wondrous hit.

The fuzzy ‘I should have known’ sections splash into the descending progression and ‘I believed in you’ lines with a very well blending transition like waves rolling into shore. It’s hypnotic and certainly gets its hooks into your brain.

I listened to this track a lot and beneath it’s appearance of simplicity and spell-like recited lyrics, there’s a lot of intricate detail; like the subtle change to the guitar line beneath the ‘I believed in you’ line or the choice of when to boost the words with a harmony.

Their heavily vignetted one-shot video has some great playful moments among the classic occult movie vibe.

Garbage Video

Watch Northern Gloom – ‘Garbage’.

Garbage Lyrics

Discarded by you
So disposed [again]

But I should have known
I should have known
The way you do
I should have known
I should have known
The way you do

‘Cause I believed in you
I believed in you
I believed in you
I believed in you
Wo-ah

Fall into the trap
I keep to myself
Yeah, it’s a gas
To be blown away

I believed in you
I believed in you
I believed in you
I believed in you
Wo-ah

I should have known
I should have known
But I believed in you

Written by Fenton on 22nd September 2025

Steve Fenton writes in our music, words, and culture categories. He was Editor in Chief for The Mag and covered live music for DV8 Magazine and Spill Magazine. He was often found in venues throughout the UK alongside ace-photographer, Mark Holloway. Steve is also a technical writer and programmer and writes gothic fiction. Steve studied Psychology at OSC, and Anarchy in the UK: A History of Punk from 1976-1978 at the University of Reading.

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