Draft:Witness To Your Love EP

Witness to Your Love is an EP released by alternative rock band Garbage for Record Store Day 2023, on April 22.

It contains "Witness to Your Love", a track that was first released on the fifth volume of the Urban Outfitters and Filter Magazine charity compilation Give Listen Help in 2008, during the band's seven-year hiatus from releasing studio albums, and then released as a single to promote Anthology the previous year; a cover of "Cities In Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees; and two previously unreleased tracks from the No Gods No Masters sessions.

Background and recording
The origin of title-track "Witness to Your Love" dates back to 2008, when singer Shirley Manson was approached by friend Jeff Castelaz, founder of the Pablove Foundation, to include a Garbage track on the fifth volume of the Give Listen Help charity compilation benefitting the Children's Hospital Los Angeles helping to fight cancer in children. Manson wrote the lyrics of "Witness to Your Love" to unfinished tracks from the Absolute Garbage sessions and finished the track with drummer Butch Vig in his GrungeIsDead home studio in Silver Lake, with guitarists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker sending guitar parts through online collaboration. Additional drums were played by Matt Walker.

"Witness to Your Love" has been described as a personal track dealing with the sudden death of David Williamson, the husband of Morag Williamson, one of Manson's closest friends in Scotland. Manson was inspired to write the lyrics to the song after Williamson's funeral and some of the lyrics directly reference the poem read at the memorial. The song's lyrics also mention the Edinburgh district of Canongate and Manson's episodes of shoplifting in her youth. In 2022, Manson further explained that the song was written as an attempt to comfort Williamson about the loss of her husband saying "I saw him. I know he existed. And he was somewhere else, but he was there. And I'm your girl, and I've got your back. And your history is my history, and our history together is something that will move forward throughout our lives. It's a joyous song in a funny way although it's based in Debby Downerisms." Vig called the song "a pretty obscure track of ours, but one of the most beautiful songs Shirl sung."

On November 21, 2009, Manson performed a live acoustic performance of the song at the Pablo Castelaz memorial at Avalon, in Hollywood, with Vig on guitar. At the event, Manson explained the song is about "acknowledging someone's life, and in doing so, acknowledging our own and how lucky we are to be alive." The performance brought Vig and Manson close and prompted them to contact the other band members to start making music again.

Release and promotion
Witness to Your Love was released on World Record Store Day 2023, April 22, ahead of Garbage's co-headline summer tour with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. The EP was released a week later on digital platforms.

Promotion and reviews of the EP largely focused on the "Cities in Dust" cover, also due to Siouxsie going back on tour in summer. "Cities in Dust" was heavily performed live during Garbage's summer tour.

Critical reception
Critics were praiseful of the "Cities in Dust" cover, calling it faithful to the original and complimenting the "soaring" vocals and guitars.