Alternative giants Garbage are back with the first taste of their new album. As previously reported, the group is back with a brand new album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, on May 30, via Stun Volume. Today, they've shared with us the first official single from the new LP, "There's No Future in Optimism".

Watch the Benjy Kirkman-directed video below:

Frontwoman Shirley Manson had this to say on the new song:

"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."

The band is also getting ready for their Happy Endings tour – their first extensive North American run in about 10 years – which begins in Florida in September and ends in Arizona in November. Check those dates below:

09/03 Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Café
09/05 Pompano Beach, FL @ Pompano Beach Amphitheatre
09/06 St Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
09/08 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
09/10 Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle
09/12 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
09/13 Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral Theatre
09/16 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
09/17 Washington, DC @ The Anthem
09/18 Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
09/20 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
09/23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
09/24 Toronto, ON @ History
09/29 Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
09/30 Newport, KY @ MegaCorp Pavilion
10/01 Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live!
10/03 Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
10/04 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/06 Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theatre
10/07 Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory
10/12 Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
10/15 Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
10/18 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory Spokane
10/20 Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum
10/21 Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
10/23 Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery
10/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
10/26 Reno, NV @ Silver Legacy Resort Casino
10/29 Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The Complex
10/31 Las Vegas, NV @ The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas - The Chelsea
11/02 Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren

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