Garbage share new single, There’s No Future In Optimism

After announcing their eighth album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light back in February, Garbage have just unveiled the record’s first single.

Entitled There’s No Future In Optimism, vocalist Shirley Manson enthuses, “I love the title. The band sent it me and I was like, ‘This is great. I’m keeping that.’”

She continues of the meaning behind the track, “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 really precarious, chaotic and terrifying.”

Watch the video for There’s No Future In Optimism below:

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is due out on May 30.

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