Madison’s Garbage released “There’s No Future In Optimism” on April 9th. It’s from the band’s highly anticipated eighth album, Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, out May 30th. It’s the first Garbage album since No Gods No Masters in 2021. According to lead singer Shirley Manson, the new album was forged out of the need to find an uplifting thread amidst the swell of chaos and extraordinary upheaval in the world. Speaking about the lead single, “There’s No Future In Optimism,” she says: “I really wanted that song to open the album. It starts out with an anthemic call to arms, a clarion call. It’s pretty much a rallying cry to all likeminded people. If you are interested in meeting this world with love, if you are willing to invest in tenderness and not violence or hate, then we are with you. You should come with us. I have to believe that music and art can still impact culture. I know it still impacts me – that mysterious power which no government on earth can co-opt or buy. Great music exists entirely within its own microcosm in a way – without any interference or corruptive influences. That’s what always makes it so pure and precious. Even though all the pointers in our society say otherwise, I do feel music still has the power to shift atoms, shift thinking and shift positions.” All four original band members, Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, have been  with the band since their inception in 1995. Garbage is playing Cruel World Festival on May 25th and Minnesota Yacht Club Festival on July 20th before heading out on their “Happy Endings” headline tour in September. It will be the band’s first US tour in almost 10 years. Find the tour dates HERE.