Background
Garbage's third album, Beautiful Garbage, had been promoted by a fourteen-month world tour, wrapping in late 2002 with a run of North American shows with No Doubt and The Distillers. Upon completion of the tour, the group took some time out; Manson returned to her native Scotland, while Vig completed production work on albums by AFI and Jessy Moss. The band regrouped to perform "Pride (In the Name of Love)" at a MusiCares tribute to U2 frontman Bono, and almost immediately after returned to their Madison, Wisconsin recording studio to begin writing their follow-up record. Garbage had already completed some groundworks sessions over two weeks of the previous August.
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