Garbage announce new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, and release first single ‘There’s No Future In Optimism’

Garbage have announced their new album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, set for release on May 30 on their own label STUNVOLUME via BMG.

Alongside the announcement, the band have released the LP's first single, 'There’s No Future In Optimism', accompanied by a music video directed by Benjy Kirkman.

Speaking about the track, frontwoman Shirley Manson shared: “I love the title. The band sent it me and I was like, “This is great. I’m keeping that.” But the lyrics are an action against that title. Because if we allow our fatalism or our negativity to really take over, we will crumble.

"It’s about a city, in my case, Los Angeles, but it could be anywhere where bad stuff is happening. After the George Floyd murder, which is one of few things in my life that I wish I’d never seen: I was changed entirely by seeing the footage of that cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck.

"In Los Angeles there were huge protests and a lot of upheaval after that. Above our house in Hollywood, there were helicopters all day long, for days on end. It was precarious, chaotic and terrifying.”

Garbage consists of all four original band members, Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig. Over the 30 years since their inception in 1995 they have sold over 20 million albums. Their upcoming record was produced by the band and long-time engineer Billy Bush.

Reflecting on the new album, Manson added: "This record is about what it means to be alive, and about what it means to face your imminent destruction. It’s hopeful. It’s very tender towards what it means to be a human being.

"Our flaws and our failures are still beautiful, even though we’re taught that they’re not. This is a tender, thrilling record about the fragility of life."

Check out the music video for ‘There’s No Future In Optimism’ below:

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light artwork & track listing:

1. 'There’s No Future In Optimism'
2. 'Chinese Fire Horse'
3. 'Hold'
4. 'Have We Met (The Void)'
5. 'Sisyphus
6. 'Radical'
7. 'Love To Give'
8. 'Get Out My Face AKA Bad Kitty'
9. 'R U Happy Now'
10. 'The Day That I Met God'